Date: 1758
"While in your hearts the flames of love may burn, / To dress the vault, like lamps in sacred urn."
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Date: 1758
"As seals their pictures to the wax impart, / So let my picture stamp thy gentle heart"
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Date: 1758, 1781
"'Tis with our Minds, as with our Bodies, none / In Essence differ, yet each knows his own."
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)
Date: 1758, 1781
"This Truth once stated, and the Soul, 'tis plain, Much on the filmy Texture of the Brain, / Much on Formations that escape our Eyes, / On nice Connections, and Coherencies, / And on corporeal Organs must depend, / For her own Function's Exercise, and End"
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Date: 1758, 1781
"Hence then the Cause of all Defects is seen, / one wrong Movement spoils the whole Machine."
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Date: 1758, 1781
"'Tis hence the sev'ral Passions take their Rise, / The Seeds of Virtue, and the Roots of Vice; / Hence Notes peculiar or to Young, or Old, / Phlegmatic, sanguine, amorous, or cold!"
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Date: 1758, 1781
"Alas! All Souls are subject to like Fate, / All sympathizing with the Body's State; / Let the fierce Fever burn thro' ev'ry Vein, / And drive the madding Fury to the Brain, / Nought can the Fervour of his Frenzy cool, / But Aristotle's self's a Parish Fool!"
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Date: 1758, 1781
"Nay in Proportion lighter Ails controul / The mental Virtue, and infect the Soul."
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Date: October 21, 1758.
"This counsel has been often given with serious dignity, and often received with appearance of conviction; but, as very few can search deep into their own minds without meeting what they wish to hide from themselves, scarce any man persists in cultivating such disagreeable acquaintance, but draws...
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Date: September 15, 1759
"In the mythological pedigree of Learning, Memory is made the mother of the Muses by which the masters of ancient Wisdom, perhaps, meant to shew the necessity of storing the mind copiously with true notions, before the imagination should be suffered to form fictions or collect embellishments; for...
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