Date: 1749
"Which, among other Things, may serve as a Comment on that Saying of Æschines, that Drunkenness shews the Mind of a Man, as a Mirror reflects his Person."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"[H]er Vanity therefore retreated into her Mind, where there is no Looking-Glass, and consequently where we can flatter ourselves with discovering almost whatever Beauties we pleas"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
Behavior is the optic glass that makes visible what passes in the mind
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1754
"But in this we are much kinder to our sense than to our intellect; for in order to assist the former we use glasses and spectacles of all kinds adapted to our deficiency of sight, whereas in the latter we are so far from accepting the assistance of mental glasses or spectacles, that we often str...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"Yet such horrid thoughts, my sister, have risen in your Amanda's breast, but thanks to the mercy and grave of my redeemer, they past hastily through my bosom, and from the extreme wretchedness of my earthly situation (for surely no torment can be greater to a tender heart, than the breaking up a...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1756, 1766
"I will love thee therefore, O Lord, my strength; yea, I will love thee: and it ever shall be my heart's desire, that my soul may behold by faith in its self, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, able and ready to change it into the same image from glory to glory, reflected upon, and conveyed to...
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
From "the natural lights of our understanding" we have the highest reason to conclude we will be rewarded or punished in the afterlife
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
God may cast his "bright beams of light upon our souls, and irradiate our understandings with the rays of ... wisdom"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1760
"And here it will be proper to have recourse to the expedient we made use of before, and holding up the mirrour to imagination, view the whole scene as if actually present"
preview | full record— Johnstone, Charles (c.1719-c.1800)
Date: 1760-7
"That had said glass been there set up, nothing more would have been wanting, in order to have taken a man's character, but to have taken a chair and gone softly, as you would to a dioptrical bee-hive, and look'd in,--view'd the soul stark naked;--observ'd all her motions,--her machinations;--tra...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)