Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Reflection is the last and greatest Bliss: / When turning backwards with inverted Eyes, / The Soul it self and all its Charms, surveys, / The deep Impressions of Coelestial Grace / And Image of the Godhead."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1714, 1723
"The passing Minds their former Load sustain, / Are born, tho' loth, and sheath'd in Flesh again."
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1718
"Epicurus, that it [sperm] is a Fragment torn from the Body and Soul."
preview | full record— Plutarch (c. 46-120)
Date: 1718
""Lausippus and Zeno, [sperm] 'tis a Body, and it is a Fragment of the Soul."
preview | full record— Plutarch (c. 46-120)
Date: 1748, 1754
"In this Light, the Administration itself, nay, every Act of it, becomes an Object of Affection, the Evil disappears, or is converted into a Balm which both heals and nourishes the Mind."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"[I]t may be said of most Men, that their intellectual Organs are as much shut up and secluded from proper Nourishment and Exercise in that little Circle to which they are confined, as the bodily Organs are in the Womb."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: January 19, 1791
"His blood they transfuse into their minds and into their manners."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)