Date: 1699
"Our prepossessions and Affections bind / The Soul in Chains and lord it o'er the Mind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1770
"But this faculty [Reason] has been much perverted, often to vile, and often to insignificant purposes; sometimes chained like a slave or malefactor, and sometimes soaring in forbidden and unknown regions."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)