Date: 1605, 1640
"For as in the government of states it is sometimes necessary to bridle one faction with another, so it is in the government within."
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1605, 1640
"Let us now pass on to the judicial place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention."
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1611
"Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings."
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Date: 1611
"After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts."
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Date: 1661
"[Y]et is my Will / Free, as the Conquerour's: and Rome shall finde, / I still retain the Empire of my Minde, / That stands above her reach, where I alone / Will rule, and scorn to live, but on a Throne."
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)
Date: 1661
"Him th'unhappy Queen / Views with an earnest Eye, and Entertains / With Smiles: for Love within her Bosom Reigns."
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)
Date: 1661
"To Liberty / A Bowl is crown'd, which all as greedily / Quaff off, as if in it they thought to finde / Their Wish, and Sense of Bondage from the Minde / Expel."
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)
Date: 1684
To do, perform; all wandring thoughts again; / No vulgar Act, Sense, Fancy where did Reign / Usurping Lords, to make them know Subjection; / Mount Reason on the Throne, wise circumspection.
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Date: 1684
" Where Fancy, Passion much o'er-rule, and grown / Usurper like, Mount Princely Reason's Throne"
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Date: 1684
"He liv'd withdrawn; Reserved, pensive Brest: / Yielding too far (unwares) to rising Passion, / Strong Fancy's pow'r, which in great Grief vexation / Do Lord it oft like Tyrants o're the Mind;"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)