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
"If we attend to that Curiosity, or prodigious Thirst of Knowledge, which is natural to the Mind in every Period of its Progress, and consider withal the endless Round of Business and Care, and the various Hardships to which the Bulk of Mankind are chained down, it is evident, that in this presen...
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: 1752
"Worse than the other--Whom, thus robb'd of Pow'r. / His former Passions fatally devour!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Well! does that make you wise, / Or open on your Follies, Reason's Eyes!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1762
"'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1662, 1762
"My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee: in a barren and dry land, where no water is."
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