Date: 1754, 1793

"Desires more warm their natal throne maintain, / Platonic passions only reach the brain."

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

Date: 1754, 1762

"The two ruling passions of this parliament, were zeal for liberty, and an aversion to the church; and to both of these, nothing could appear more exceptionable, than the court of high commission, whose institution rendered it entirely arbitrary, and assigned to it the defence of the ecclesiastic...

— Hume, David (1711-1776)

Date: 1754

Reason may rule the mind and keep her God-like seat

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

Date: 1754

"O, come; indignant, drive out, far beyond/ The utmost Precincts of the human Breast, / Beyond the Springs of Hope, the Cells of Joy, / And ev'ry Mansion where a Virtue lives; / O drive far off, for ever drive that Bane, / That hideous Pest, engender'd deep in Hell, / Where Stygian Glooms condens...

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1755

"Love is by fancy led about"

— Granville [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Whether it be a divine revelation or no, reason must judge, which can never permit the mind to reject a greater evidence to embrace what is less evident."

— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"There are so many ways of fallacy, such arts of giving colours, appearances and resemblances by this court-dresser, the fancy"

— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Who has a breast so pure,/ But some uncleanly apprehensions/ Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit,/ With meditations lawful"

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Blind as the Cyclops, and blind as he, / They own'd a lawless savage liberty, / Like that our painted ancestors so priz'd, / Ere empire's arts their breasts had civiliz'd."

— Dryden [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

The faculties of mind with which man is endowed are witness to God's being

— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]