Date: 1704
"Thus the belief of Transubstantiation is inconsistent with the Belief of these Miracles; for if we believe them we must allow the Testimony of Sense to be a sufficient proof of them; But if we believe Transubstantiation we must renounce our Senses , and deny them to be a certain proof of any thi...
preview | full record— Psalmanazar, George (1679?-1763)
Date: 1704
"For it is liable to many of the same absurdities with the Romish Doctrine, about the Eucharist; First, because it denies the certainty of our Senses in the proper objects, and consequently destroys their great Evidence of the Christian Religion, from the Miracles wrought in confirmation of it, w...
preview | full record— Psalmanazar, George (1679?-1763)
Date: 1704
"The Natural Power of Conscience, which reproves and torments a Man for the heinous Crimes he has committed, tho' the Person be above the fear of human Punishment, or the Crime be committed so secretly, as to escape all natural means of discovery; in which Cases Conscience by its Sentence does, a...
preview | full record— Psalmanazar, George (1679?-1763)
Date: 1704
"When gentle Reason rules thy Breast; / The Sun upon the calmest Sea / Appears not half so bright as Thee."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1705
"It did the curious Instruments confound, / And all the winding Labarynths of Sound, / The charming Musick-Rooms, that entertain / The Soul high seated in her Throne the Brain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
A monarch may make "all her Subjects" "Friends to her Empire and "in their Hearts" lay "its deep Foundations"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705, 1712
In Catholicism "All humane Sense to holy Craft gave place, / And Reason was a Slave to doubtful Grace."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1705, 1712
"If Reason must not judge of Faith's true light, / How came our Guides to know the wrong from right, / Or, how their rev'rend Heads distinguish plain, / Betwixt the Bible and the Alchoran."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1705
"Polish'd in Courts, and harden'd in the Field, / Renown'd for Conquest, and in Council skill'd, / Their Courage dwells not in a troubl'd Flood / Of mounting Spirits, and fermenting Blood; / Lodg'd in the Soul, with Virtue over-rul'd, / Inflam'd by Reason, and by Reason cool'd, / In Hours of Peac...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1705
"Love is th' unlimited Passion of the Mind, it ranges unconfin'd by Law or Reason"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679-1748); Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)