Date: 1745
"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1746
Imagination may "Bring what ideas she can find / To the great storehouse of the Mind, / Where Judgement ever sits serene, / To rule the vague and sportive queen"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1747, 1811
"'Yes, if his soul to reason's rule resign'd, / 'And heaven's own views fair-opening on his mind,/ 'Caught from bright nature's flame the living ray, / 'Through passion's cloud pour'd in resistless day; / 'And taught mankind in reas'ning Pride's despite, / 'That God is wise, and all that is righ...
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1748, 1768
Friendly powers create "These maladies in pity to mankind: / These abdicated Reason reinstate / When lawless Appetite usurps the mind"
preview | full record— Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1705-1760)
Date: 1749
Truely happy are "those who can / Govern that little empire, Man"
preview | full record— Stepney, George (1663-1707)
Date: 1751, 1768
"When reason rules, what glory does ensue."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1751
"The imagination is thereby kept within bounds, and under due subjection to sense and reason."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1751
"We first consider the nature of that act of the mind, which is termed belief; of which the immediate foundation is the testimony of our senses."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1759
"Sentiments, designs, affections, though it is from these that according to cool reason human actions derive their whole merit or demerit, are placed by the great Judge of hearts beyond the limits of every human jurisdiction, and are reserved for the cognizance of his own unerring tribunal."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1759
"The thoughts of that admiration, whose effects they were never to feel, played about their hearts, banished from their breasts the strongest of all natural fears, and transported them to perform actions which seem almost beyond the reach of human nature."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)