Date: 1724
"The sudden Gusts of these Passions being thus accounted for, when they become extreme they drive about the Blood with such a Hurricane, that Nature is overset, like a Mill by a Flood: So that what drove it only quicker round before, now intirely stops it, and renders the Countenance pale and gha...
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Date: 1724
"But if the Passions be raging and tumultuous, and constantly fuelled, nothing less that He, who has the Hearts of Men in his Hands, and forms them as a Potter does his Clay, who stills the raging Seas, and calms the Tempests of the Air, can settle and quiet such tumultuous, overbearing Hurricane...
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Date: November, 1740
"The storms and tempests were not alone removed from nature; but those more furious tempests were unknown to human breasts."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)