Date: From Thursday July 13. to Saturday July 15. 1710
"Her Air discovered her Body a meer Machine of her Mind, and not that her Thoughts were employed in studying Graces and Attractions for her Person."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: From Thursd. Aug. 3. to Saturd. Aug. 5. 1710
"This is interpreted by all who know not the Springs of my Heart as a wonderful Piece of Humility."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: From Thursday Sept. 7. to Saturday Sept. 9. 1710
"One would think they hoped to conquer their Mistresses Hearts as People tame Hawks and Eagles, by keeping them awake, or breaking their Sleep when they are fallen into it."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Saturday, November 11, 1710
"My Friend's Talk made so odd an Impression upon my Mind, that soon after I was a-Bed I fell insensibly into a most unaccountable Resverie, that had neither Moral nor Design in it, and cannot be so properly called a Dream as a Delirium."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Wednesday, March 7, 1711
"The Reflections of such Men are so delicate upon all Occurrences which they are concern'd in, that they should be expos'd to more than ordinary Infamy and Punishment, for offending against such quick Admonitions as their own Souls give them, and blunting the fine Edge of their Minds in such a Ma...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Wednesday, March 7, 1711
"The Reflections of such Men are so delicate upon all Occurrences which they are concern'd in, that they should be expos'd to more than ordinary Infamy and Punishment, for offending against such quick Admonitions as their own Souls give them, and blunting the fine Edge of their Minds in such a Ma...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1711, 1714
"All is revolution in us."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1711
"[S]trange Dis-orders are bred in the Minds of those Men whose Passions are not regulated by Vertue, and disciplined by Reason"
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1711
"I consider an Human Soul without Education like Marble in the Quarry, which shews none of its inherent Beauties, till the Skill of the Polisher fetches out the Colours, makes the Surface shine, and discovers every ornamental Cloud, Spot and Vein that runs through the Body of it."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1711
"What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to an Human Soul. "
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