Date: May 10, 1704
"And I think the reason is easy to be assigned: for there is a peculiar string in the harmony of human understanding which, in several individuals, is exactly of the same tuning. Thus, if you can dexterously screw up to its right key and then strike gently upon it, whenever you have the good fort...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1705
"Nature is a kind of Harmony, which by a strange Collection of Things, makes an Impression on our Senses and our Reason."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
When "Interest and Inclination stand Candidates for Preference, we then trick with Virtue, and put the Cheat upon Honour; we impose upon our Understandings, and force our Judgments; nay more, we depose even Reason itself, and give Passions the Regency; and when our Minds are thus untun'd, our Act...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
Our Minds may be "untun'd," so that "our Actions soon joyn in the same Discord; post-pone the Laws of the Gods, and make those of our Country ineffectual"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)