Date: 1754, 1793
Griefs may "alternate o'er the bosom reign"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1754, 1793
"All-perfect Wisdom, on each living soul, / Engrav'd this mandate, 'to preserve their frame, And hold entire the gen'ral orb of being.'"
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Date: 1754, 1793
"Desires more warm their natal throne maintain, / Platonic passions only reach the brain."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1754, 1762
"While private resentment was boiling in his sullen, unsociable mind, he heard the nation resound with complaints against the duke; and he met with the remonstrance of the commons, in which his enemy was represented as the cause of every national grievance, and as the great enemy of the public."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1754, 1762
"So great was Charles’s aversion to violent and sanguinary measures, and so strong his affection to his native kingdom, that, it is probable, the contest in his breast would be nearly equal between these laudable passions, and his attachment to the hierarchy."
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Date: 1754, 1762
"By stronger contagion, the popular affections were communicated from breast to breast, in this place of general rendezvous and society."
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Date: 1754, 1762
"The two ruling passions of this parliament, were zeal for liberty, and an aversion to the church; and to both of these, nothing could appear more exceptionable, than the court of high commission, whose institution rendered it entirely arbitrary, and assigned to it the defence of the ecclesiastic...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1754, 1762
"The licence, which the parliament had bestowed on this spirit, by checking ecclesiastical authority; the countenance and encouragement, with which they had honoured it; had already diffused its influence to a wonderful degree: And all orders of men had drunk deep of the intoxicating poison."
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Date: 1755, 1836
"Should man through Nature solitary roam, / His will his sovereign, every where his home, / What force would guard him from the lion's jaw?"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1755, 1836
The Maker has "impress'd" on the human breast, a "sense of kindred, country, man"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)