Date: November 10, 1730
"Virtue, Love, and Grief, so amply fill her Mind, there is no Room for any ruder Guest"
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: November 10, 1730
"Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects, / Let none the just Mirror despise."
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: June 22, 1731
"What Pity it is, a Mind so comprehensive, daring and inquisitive, shou'd be a Stranger to Religion's sweet, but powerful Charms."
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Date: 1731-2
"It is a kind of annihilation to have our minds made a tabula rasa, and to date our existence from a new period."
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Date: 1731, 1753
"Shines there a captain, form'd, for war's controul, / Born, with the seeds of conquest, in his soul?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731, 1753
"I feel her now--th' invader fires my breast; / And my soul swells, to suit the heavenly guest."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: November 10, 1730
"The pleasing Pain, / The gentle Chain, / That constant Hearts unite, / Such Joy bestows, / That Freedom knows / No such sincere Delight."
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Date: 1731
"For those Ideas of Heat, Light, and Colours, and other Sensible things, being not Qualities really existing in the Bodies without us, as the Atomical Philosophy instructs us, and therefore not passively stamped or imprinted upon the Soul from without in the same manner that a Signature is upon a...
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1731
"And therefore it [the soul] is not present with it only as a Mariner with a Ship, that is, meerly Locally, or knowingly and unpassionately present, they still continuing two distinct Things; but it is vitally united to it, and passionately present with it. And therefore when the Body is hurt, th...
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1731
"Wherefore though all Cogitations be formally in the Soul, and not in the Body, yet these sensitive Cogitations being in the Soul no otherwise than as vitally united to the Body, they are not so properly the Cogitations of the Soul, as of the mixed, or both together, as Plotinus calls it, the Com...
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)