Date: 1762?
"My heart a cage of birds unclean, / Its old corrupt affections feels, / Its strong propensity to sin; / And God in me no longer dwells."
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Date: 1762
"That work of faith the novice blind / Would fain, on fancy's horse, leap o'er, / A shorter way to Zion find, / And fight with sin--when sin's no more."
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Date: 1762
" Far from the crowd / Of passions loud, / Thyself to me discover"
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Date: 1762
"Jesus, Thou that image art, / Seal Thy name upon my heart."
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Date: November, 1762; 1797
"This reflection was so strongly impressed upon my mind, that T'was able to employ the succeeding morning in setting down the particulars of a dream occasioned by it."
preview | full record— Thornton, Bonnell (1725-1768)
Date: 1762
"Human nature cannot feel a deeper affliction than now overwhelmed Miss Melvyn; wherein Sir Charles bore as great a share, as the easiness of his nature was capable of;--but his heart was not susceptible, either of strong, or lasting impressions."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1763
Love of fame may spur one to deeds of pith, "where courage, tried / In Reason's court, is amply justified."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"Perception cannot be made up of no perceptions; nor received by a number of atoms jointly, unless received by each of them singly [no more than] whispers heard by a thousand men can make together a [resounding] audible voice"
preview | full record— Tucker, Abraham (1705-1774)
Date: 1763
"if the King were to incorporate six hundred men into a regiment, there would not be six hundred and one Beings therefore, one for the regiment, and one for each of the men [so] neither when a multiple of atoms is run together to form a human body, is there a Being more than there was before: nor...
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Date: 1763
I shall bury in Oblivion all Thoughts of the Intent,
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)