Date: 1664
"I suppose the body to be nothing but a statue or machine made of earth."
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1664
"Their Hearts are as hard, as Iron too, / As tough, but not so cold."
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1665
"But as though grains of Sand and Ashes be a part, but of a despicable smallness, and very easie, and liable to be scatter'd, and blown away; yet the skilful Artificer, by a vehement Fire, brings Numbers of these to afford him that noble substance, Glass, by whose help we may both see our selves,...
preview | full record— Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
Date: 1665
"And since Gold-smiths and Refiners are wont all the year long carefully to save the very sweepings of their Shops, because they may contain in them some Filings, or Dust of those richer Metals, Gold and Silver; I see not why a Christian may not be as careful, not to lose the Fragments and lesser...
preview | full record— Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
Date: 1667
"His Spir't burns up our dross, & makes our graces / Sparkle like furnace gold"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"So are those minds that Gold admire do, / Barren, and haunted by the Devil too."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"God hath large showres of vengeance to pour down / Upon our guilty souls, unless we rent / Our rocky hearts, and speedily repent."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Mans body is a box till death it split / The Soul, that precious Gem is kept in it."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
" But under God this Jewel [the Conscience], O esteem / For its great worth, as rarest next to Christ"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Nor could they trouble us, but that our mind / Hath its own glory unto dross confin'd."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)