Date: 1682
"'Tis not a Flash of Fancy which sometimes / Dasling our Minds, sets off the slightest Rimes; / Bright as a blaze, but in a moment done; / True Wit is everlasting, like the Sun; / Which though sometimes beneath a cloud retir'd, / Breaks out again, and is by all admir'd."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1692
"We Truth by a Refracted ray / View, like the Sun at Ebb of day: / Whom the gross, treacherous Atmosphere / Makes where it is not, to appear."
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Date: 1700
"Our Understandings have a Natural, which is a Fallible-light; and therefore often leads us wrong."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"God has placed a Natural light, as a Candle in our Hearts; and His Supernatural light does Influence and Direct it."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"Solomon says, Prov. xx. 27. The Spirit of man is the Candle of the Lord, searching all the Inward Parts."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"For (says he) Man can no more be a Light to his Mind than he is to his Body: And thence infers, that as the Eye has no Light in it self, so neither the Understanding."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"He makes our Nature and Minds wholly Dark of themselves, only succeptible of Super-natural light, when sent into our Understanding."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
" I will not take advantage of the Philosophy of this; for, I suppose his meaning to be, that it is Natural to the Understanding to Receive a Light that is infused into it, as for the Eye to see by an Extraneous light; that is, it is an Organ fitted to Receive Light, tho' it has none in it self; ...
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"Affliction, the sincerest Friend, the frankest Monitor, the best Instructer and indeed the only useful School that Women are ever put to, rouses her understanding, opens her Eyes, fixes her Attention, and diffuses such a Light, such a Joy into her Mind, as not only Informs her better, but Entert...
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666–1731)
Date: 1700
"She will discern a time when her Sex shall be no bar to the best Employments, the highest Honor; a time when that distinction, now so much us'd to her Prejudice, shall be no more, but provided she is not wanting to her self, her Soul shall shine as bright as the greatest Heroe's."
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666–1731)