Date: 1705, 1715
"Who can just Laws without Reserve obey, / Laws made secure from Arbitrary Sway, / Where Pow'r is limited, Justice confin'd, / To Rules of Reason, not a lawless Mind, / For that is Tyranny in any kind?"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1705, 1715
In Elections "A Man who must not make the least Pretence / To judge by Reason, or be rul'd by Sence"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1705
"An Excellent Artist is not like the Phænix, for he does Justice to the Merits of others; for Judgment governs our Thoughts and Ideas, and makes us know our selves to be what we are."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1705
"All the World knows it is an Heroick Action not to be transported by our Passions; and tho' they may chance to assault our Wills, yet that Judgment that governs 'em will make us relish our Reasons"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1705
"Guilt is never without a Character, we may Read it in the Criminals Faces; it will appear in their very Eyes, and express that the Contempt of Virtue hath caused an Insurrection of the Passions."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1705
"At last, being assaulted by Turns, on the one Side by Reason, and the other by Interest and Passion, she got up early in the Morning, without having been able to take any other Resolution, than to yield her self up, if possible, to be govern'd by Volpone, and be for the future meerly Passive in ...
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1705
"Children have Masters to teach them to Dance and Sing, &c. but few or none to form their Minds, and teach them good Sense; that is not thought of; which is therefore the only Reason why most Men are more govern'd by Caprice and Fancy, than by the Guide of their Reason, which is not sufficien...
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
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: 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)
Date: 1706, 1715 [1706-1721]
"At the sight of this object I am not my own master: my soul is disturbed and rebels, and I fancy it has a mind to leave me!"
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