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Date: March 24, 1659
"[Oliver Cromwell's] temper exceeding fiery, as I have known, but the flame of it kept down, for the most part, or soon allayed with those moral endowments he had."
preview | full record— Maidston, John
Date: 1688
"Sole Queen of my affections and desire, / That like to Ætna sets my heart on fire,"
preview | full record— Scot, Walter (b. 1613, d. in or after 1688)
Date: 1697
The soul may be a "Modification or Power of the Body" so that it eventually ceases to act, "either perishing, as a Flame when the Fewel is spent; or returning to its Fountain, whatsoever it was"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"If a Flame be extinct, the same cannot return, but a new one may be made."
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
