Date: 1693
"Reason you plead, if you it seems t'acquit, / But if condemn'd, its Vote you won't admit. / But still, if private Reason you pretend / Must be the Judge, Disputes will never end."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: January 29, 1708
"[I]f thou wilt prolong / Dire Compotation, forthwith Reason quits / Her Empire to Confusion, and Misrule, / And vain Debates"
preview | full record— Philips, John (1676-1709)
Date: 1712, 1728
"No Party Heats his Just Designs Controul, / Or Over-rule the Purpose of his Soul, / Him Reason guides, and no wild Passion draws, / To give a random Vote against the Laws."
preview | full record— Sewell, George (1690-1726)
Date: 1713
"Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne, / Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone: / At her Command intestine Discords cease, / And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1714
"Thus when Revenge does Reason's Scepter rule, / It turns the Wisest Statesman to a Fool"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)