Date: 1667, 1710
"The Mind of Man is his Eye, by which he is to behold God; now if this Eye be blind, if the Light be Darkness, how great is that Darkness!"
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Date: 1697
A "thoughtless, senseless, lifeless Soul" is the "Carcase of a Soul"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"If a Body cease to move, and come to perfect rest, the Motion it had cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd."
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Date: 1744
"Instinct points out an interest in hereafter; / But our blind Reason sees not where it lies; / Or, seeing, gives the substance for the shade."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Beneath what baleful planet, in what hour / Of desperation, by what Fury's aid, / In what infernal posture of the soul, / All hell invited, and all hell in joy / At such a birth, a birth so near of kin, / Did thy foul fancy whelp so black a scheme / Of hopes abortive, faculties half-blown, / And...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"If not all-adamant, Lorenzo! hear: / All is delusion; Nature is wrapp'd up, / In tenfold night, from Reason's keenest eye; / There's no consistence, meaning, plan, or end / In all beneath the sun, in all above, / (As far as man can penetrate,) or heaven / Is an immense, inestimable prize; / Or a...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"And what is Reason? Be she thus defined: / Reason is upright stature in the soul."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: April 1750, 1791
"Yet still let reason thro' the eye of faith / View Him with fearful love; let truth pronounce, / And adoration on her bended knee / With Heav'n-directed hands confess His reign."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: January, 1754; 1791
"Survey the magnet's sympathetic love, / That wooes the yielding needle; contemplate / Th'attractive amber's power, invisible / Ev'n to the mental eye."
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