Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"Laws and Government are to the Political Bodies of Civil Societies, what the Vital Spirits and Life it self are to the Natural Bodies of Animated Creatures"
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"I believe Man (besides Skin, Flesh, Bones, &c. that are obvious to the Eye) to be a compound of various Passions, that all of then, as they are provoked and come uppermost, govern him by turns, whether he will or no."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"How strangely our Passions govern us!"
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1705
"At length a Court of Conscience is erected by the Mind, where all particular Acts are scrupulously examined, by reason of these frequent Variances of the Souls, the Animal Spirits, as being too much, and in a manner perpetually exercised, and being commanded here and there contrary ways, and alm...
preview | full record— Beaumont, John (c.1640-1731)
Date: 1703, 1718
"Passions Subjection to their Guide disown, / Insult their Soveraign, and subvert his Throne"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
Fancy may "fickle reign in Reason's Seat, / And Thy wild Empire, Anarchy, uphold"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
Tyrant desires subject man to "various Servitude, and endless Change of Pain"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1660, 1676
"That is, of that which God hath declared to be good or evil respectively, the conscience is to be informed. God hath taken care that his laws shall be published to all his subjects, he hath written them where they must needs read them, not in Tables of stone or Phylacteries on the forehead, but ...
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1710, 1714
"As cruel a Court as the Inquisition appears; there must, it seems, be full as formidable a one, erected in our-selves; if we wou'd pretend to that Uniformity of Opinion which is necessary to hold us to one Will, and preserve us in the same Mind, from one day to another."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1705
"T' enjoy the World's Conveniencies, / Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease, / Without great Vices, is a vain / Eutopia seated in the Brain."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)