Date: w. 1737, published 1738
"Long, as to him who works for debt, the Day; / Long as the Night to her whose love's away; / Long as the Year's dull circle seems to run, / When the brisk Minor pants for twenty-one; / So slow th' unprofitable Moments roll, / That lock up all the Functions of my soul; / That keep me from Myself;...
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Date: 1743
"We hang one jingling padlock on the mind"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1754
"In the first place, we must offer him the tribute of our gold, as to our true King; that is, we must daily present him with our souls, stampt with his own image, and burnished with divine love."
preview | full record— Challoner, Richard (1691-1781)
Date: 1761
"Soft pity may touch the manly Breast, / And on thy soul mild Nature's stamp imprest"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1775
"Let Jervase gratis paint, and Frowd / Save Three-pence, and his Soul"
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Date: 1776
"If you really then think that, every process, termed mental, in man, is in fact nothing more than so many distinct nervous vibrations, then I readily grant that matter may think, for undoubtedly every stretched cord, when touched, will vibrate; and I will farther grant, that a fiddle, in that se...
preview | full record— Berington, Joseph (1743-1827)
Date: 1777
"The minds of the negroes are contracted; because slavery destroys all the springs of the soul."
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