Date: 1703
"Wickedness and vice is the bondage of the will, which is the proper seat of liberty: and therefore there is no such slave in the world, as a man that is subject to his lusts; that is under the tyranny of strong and unruly passions, of vicious inclinations and habits."
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
Date: 1703
"This man is a slave to many Masters, who are very imperious and exacting; and the more he yieldeth to them, with the greater tyranny and rigour they will use him. One passion hurries a man one way, and another drives him fiercely another; one lust commands him upon such a service, and another ca...
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
Date: 1703
"The Son of God hath done that which is sufficient on his part to vindicate mankind from the slavery of their Lusts and Passions: and if we will vigorously set about the work, and put forth our endeavours, we may rescue our selves from this bondage."
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
Date: 1703
"Reason rules within, and keeps the throne / While the inferior faculties obey, / And all her laws with reluctance own"
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1703
"Virtue its Splendor ever will retain, / And Wisdom still an inward State maintain; / Still in the Soul with a Majestick Grandeur reign."
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1703
"Thrice blest are they who're with interior Graces crown'd, / Whose Minds with rational Delights abound"
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1704
"When gentle Reason rules thy Breast; / The Sun upon the calmest Sea / Appears not half so bright as Thee."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1705
"It did the curious Instruments confound, / And all the winding Labarynths of Sound, / The charming Musick-Rooms, that entertain / The Soul high seated in her Throne the Brain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
A monarch may make "all her Subjects" "Friends to her Empire and "in their Hearts" lay "its deep Foundations"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705, 1712
In Catholicism "All humane Sense to holy Craft gave place, / And Reason was a Slave to doubtful Grace."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)