Date: 1762
"C’est alors que la voix de la conscience reprendra sa force & son empire, c’est alors que la volupté pure qui naît du contentement de soi-même, & le regret amer de s’être avili, distingueront par des sentiments inépuisables le sort que chacun se sera préparé."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1762
"En méditant sur la nature de l’homme, j’y crus découvrir deux principes distincts, dont l’un l’élevoit à l’étude des vérités éternelles, à l’amour de la justice & du beau moral, aux régions du monde intellectuel dont la contemplation fait les délices du sage, & dont l’autre le ramenoit bassement...
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"FORTUNE has made me the slave of another, but nature and inclination render me entirely subservient to you; a tyrant commands my body, but you are master of my heart."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"You would fondly persuade me that my former lessons still influence your conduct, and yet your mind seems not less enslaved than your body."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1662, 1762
"In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O my God: I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart."
preview | full record— The Church of England
Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)
"That mind is said to be possessed of NATURAL LIBERTY, or liberty of choice, which is so constituted, as that its volitions shall not be invincibly determined by any foreign cause or consideration whatever offered to it, but by its own sovereign pleasure."
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)
"PHILOSOPHICAL LIBERTY consists in a prevailing disposition to act according to the dictates of reason; i. e. in such a manner, as shall, all things considered, most effectually promote our happiness. A disposition to act contrary to this is MENTAL SERVITUDE: and when the mind is equally...
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1764
"No: if you will be a true member of this church, you must give up your reason, and even the testimony of your senses too; as appears notoriously in the affair of transubstantiation."
preview | full record— Murray, James (1732-1782)
Date: 1766
"Each of these words, implies, resistance; but, that of 'conquer', refers to victory over enemies; and is, generally, used in the literal sense: that of 'subdue', is more applicable to our passions; being, oftener, used in a figurative; and means, a bringing under subjection: that of 'overcome', ...
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766
Love "leaves us not the liberty of choice; it commands in the beginning, as a master, and, reigns, afterwards, as a tyrant, till we are accustomed to its chains, by length of time; or, till they are broken by the efforts of powerful reason, or, the caprice of continued vexation."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)