Date: 1765
"You saw what heart-religion meant [...] true religion is not a negative or an external thing; but the life of God in the soul of man; the image of God stamped upon the heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John (1703-1791)
Date: 1766
"The word 'heavy', is more applicable to that, which loads the body; 'weighty', to that, which burdens the mind."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766
"'Excursions' are necessary to persons, in a sedentary way of life, in order, to unbend the mind, and, exercise the body."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766
"Considering these words, in a religious sense; that of 'fervency', seems to rise upon 'warmth'; 'warmth' implying, a flame of devotion, in opposition to coolness; 'fervency', great heat of mind, as opposed to coldness."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1769
"For every Creature of this World, animate or inanimate, is in its Degree, a Microcosm of all the Powers, that are in the great World, of which it is a Part."
preview | full record— Law, William (1686-1761)
Date: 1771
"When we contemplate a Portrait, without thinking of whom it is the Portrait, such Contemplation is analogous to PHANSY. When we view it with reference to the Original, whom it represents, such Contemplation is analogous to MEMORY"
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)
Date: 1773
"Instead of contemplating our own fancied perfections, or even real superiority with self-complacence, religion will teach us to 'look into ourselves, and fear:' the best of us, God knows, have enough to fear, if we honestly search into all the dark recesses of the heart, and bring out every thou...
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"By accustoming yourself thus to conquer and disappoint your anger, you will, by degrees, find it grow weak and manageable, so as to leave your reason at liberty."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"The same craving restless vanity will there endure a thousand mortifications, which, in the midst of seeming pleasure, will secretly corrode her heart; whilst the meek and humble generally find more gratification than they expected, and return home pleased and enlivened from every scene of amuse...
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: December 10, 1774; 1775
"Our hearts frequently warmed in this manner, by the contact of those whom we wish to resemble, will undoubtedly catch something of their way of thinking, and we shall receive in our own bosoms some radiation at least of their fire and splendour."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)