Date: 1660, 1676
In sum, It is the image of God; and as in the mysterious Trinity, we adore the will, memory, and understanding, and Theology contemplates three persons in the analogies, proportions, and correspondences, of them: so in this also we see plainly that Conscience is that likeness of God, in which he ...
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
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: 1667
"Whose Mirrours are the crystal Brooks, / Or else each others Hearts and Looks."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"In every Brook or Mirrour we can find / Reflections of our face to be; / But a true Optick to present our Mind / We hardly get, and darkly see."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1674
"And therefore for the more probable explication of the Phenomena of the Passions which are not raised in the Rational Soul, I found myself obliged to admit her to have a Sensitive one conjoyned with her, to receive her immediate suggestions, and to actuate the body according to her soveraign wil...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: 1674
"In Man indeed, it seems not difficult to conceive, that the Rational Soul, as president of all th'inferiour faculties, and constantly speculating the impressions, or images represented to her by the Sensitive, as by a mirrour; doth first form to herself conceptions and notions correspondent to t...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: 1677
"My Habit is the Mirror of my Mind, little do you know the value of this outside"?
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1677
"But when Love held the Mirror, the undeceiving Glass / Reflected all the weakness of my Soul, and made me know / My richest treasure being lost, my Honour, / All the remaining spoil cou'd not be worth / The Conqueror's Care or Value."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"A mirk mirrour is a man's mind."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)
Date: 1678, 2nd edition in 1743
"For though the Geometrician perceive himself to make Lines, Triangles and Circles in the Dust, with his Finger, yet he is not aware, how he makes all those same Figures, first upon the Corporeal Spirits of his Brain, from whence notwithstanding, as from a Glass, they are reflected to him, Fancy ...
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)