Date: 1756

"Alas! she hears me not; within her mind, / As warring flames are in the earth confin'd, / So is her rage and indignation pent."

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

Date: 1756

"Let then my soul and body be a-kin, / Naked without, as desolate within."

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

Date: 1756

"What a rough war contending Passion keeps! / Now the storm's up; now, hah! by Heav'n he weeps."

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

Date: 1756

"My brain's on fire, my blood begins to boil."

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

Date: 1756, 1766

"Then only you are qualified for life, when you are able to oppose your appetites, and bravely dare to call your opinions to account; when you have established judgment or reason as the ruler in your mind, and by a patience of thinking, and a power of resisting, before you choose, can bring your ...

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"I will love thee therefore, O Lord, my strength; yea, I will love thee: and it ever shall be my heart's desire, that my soul may behold by faith in its self, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, able and ready to change it into the same image from glory to glory, reflected upon, and conveyed to...

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"In the softest, sweetest voice, she expressed herself, and without the least appearance of labour, her ideas seemed to flow from a vast fountain"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

Gold may invert the proper order of mind and body and produce "an apostasy that sets the inferior powers in the throne, and enslaves the mind to the body"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

We are "endued with an understanding which can acquire large moral dominion, and may ... sit as queen upon the throne over the whole corporeal system"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

From "the natural lights of our understanding" we have the highest reason to conclude we will be rewarded or punished in the afterlife

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)