Date: 1607
"Now for the body, as well it leuils at it: for those who distemper and misdiet them selues with vntimely and vnwonted surfeting, who make their bodies the noysome sepulchers of their soules, not considering the estate of their enfeebled body what will be accordant to it, not waighing their compl...
preview | full record— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
Date: 1610
Man "into himself can draw / All, all his faith can swallow, or reason chaw ... All the round world, to man is but a pill."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1649
"I see it a bad exchange to wound a mans owne Conscience, thereby to salve State sores; to calme the stormes of popular discontents, by stirring up a tempest in a mans owne bosome."
preview | full record— Charles I (1600-1649); Gauden, John (1605-1662)
Date: 1660, 1676
"Will and Conscience are like the cognati sensus, the Touch and the Taste; or the Teeth and the Ears, affected and assisted by some common objects, whose effect is united in matter and some real events, and distinguished by their formalities, or metaphysical beings."
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1660, 1676
"In the actions of human entercourse, and the notions tending to it, reason is our eye, and to it are notices proportion'd, drawn from nature and experience, even from all the principles with which our rational faculties usually do converse."
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)