Date: 1705
"At length a Court of Conscience is erected by the Mind, where all particular Acts are scrupulously examined, by reason of these frequent Variances of the Souls, the Animal Spirits, as being too much, and in a manner perpetually exercised, and being commanded here and there contrary ways, and alm...
preview | full record— Beaumont, John (c.1640-1731)
Date: 1706, 1709
"We are a little Kingdom; But the Man / That chains his Rebel Will to Reasons Throne, / Forms it a large one."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706, 1709
"But Charms so much divine / Hold a long Empire of the Heart."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706
Many men "blinded as they have been from the beginning, they never could think otherwise; at least without a vigour of mind able to contest the empire of habit"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1706
"Matters that are recommended to our thoughts by any of our passions take possession of our minds with a kind of authority, and will not be kept out or dislodged, but, as if the passion that rules were, for the time, the sheriff of the place, and came with all the posse, the understanding is seiz...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1706
"There is scarce any body, I think, of so calm a temper who hath not sometime found this tyranny on his understanding, and suffered under the inconvenience of it."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1706
"And therefore wert thou bred to virtuous Knowledge, / And Wisdom early planted in thy Soul; / That thou might'st know to rule thy fiery Passions, / To bind their Rage, and stay their headlong Course."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1706
"Not in the Court of Conscience, Sir."
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1706 [1707]
"The Man that's Resolute and Just, / Firm to his Principles and Trust, / Nor Hopes, nor Fears can blind; / No Passions his Designs controll, / Not Love, that Tyrant of the Soul, / Can shake his steddy Mind."
preview | full record— Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)
Date: 1706
"There's but one Way however to resent it from a Woman; and that's to drive her bravely from your Heart, and place a worthier in her vacant Throne."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)