Date: 1718
"Epicurus, that it [sperm] is a Fragment torn from the Body and Soul."
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Date: 1718
""Lausippus and Zeno, [sperm] 'tis a Body, and it is a Fragment of the Soul."
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Date: 1718
"Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, that the Spermatick Faculty is incorporeal, as the Mind is which moves the Body, but the effused Matter is corporeal."
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Date: 1758
"It is scandalous, that he who sweetens his Drink by the Gifts of the Bees, should, by Vice, embitter Reason, the Gift of the Gods."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1758
"They who have a good Constitution of Body, support Heats and Colds: and so they, who have a right Constitution of Soul, bear [the Attacks of] Anger, and Grief, and immoderate Joy, and the other Passions."
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Date: 1758
"It is more necessary for the Soul to be cured, than the Body: for it is better to die, than to live ill."
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Date: 1780
"The face is certainly the best index of the mind, and the passions as forcibly expressed by the features as by the words and gesture of the performer."
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)
Date: 1780
"His discourse had not slightly affected me, or grazed the skin alone, but left a deep and mortal wound, and pierced, as it were, to my inmost soul."
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)
Date: 1780
"The mind, in my opinion, of every well-disposed man, is like a soft mark, or butt; many are the archers in this life, with their quivers full of speeches of every kind; but few amongst them aim aright: some stretch the cord too tight, and the arrow, sent forth with more force than is necessary, ...
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)
Date: 1780
"But the skilful marksman, like our philosopher, examines first the mark he is to shoot at, with all possible diligence and care, to see whether it be soft or hard, for some are impenetrable; then dipping his arrow, not in poison, like the Scythians, nor in opium, like the Curetes, but in a kind ...
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)