Date: 1742
"Is it [my governing part] glewed to, and incorporated with the flesh, so as to turn which way that pleases?"
preview | full record— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), and James Moor (bap. 1712, d. 1779)
Date: 1742
"Remember, 'tis that which lies hid within, which draws and turns you as the wires do the puppet."
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Date: 1742
The body's organs "are but like the ax, [any tool of any artizan,] with this only difference, that they are naturally united with us: since, none of these parts are of any more service, without the cause which moves and stops them, than the shuttle is to the weaver; the pen, to the writer; or the...
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Date: 1742
"The soul is as a polish'd sphere, when it neither extends itself to any thing external, nor yields inwardly to it, nor is compressed in any part; but shines with that light which discovers both the truth in other things, and that within itself."
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Date: 1742
"God beholds all souls bare, and stripped of these corporeal vessels, bark, and filth."
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Date: 1742
"Won't you, at last, perceive, that you have something more excellent and divine within you, than that which raises the several passions, and moves you, as the wires do a puppet, without your own approbation?"
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Date: 1742
"The same Mistakes may likewise be observed in Scarron, the Arabian Nights, the 'History of Marianne' and 'Le Paisan Parvenu', and perhaps some few other Writers of this Class, whom I have not read, or do not at present recollect; for I would by no means be thought to comprehend those great ...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1742
"So should all speak: so Reason speaks in all. / From the soft whispers of that god in man, / Why fly to Folly, why to Frenzy fly, / For rescue from the blessing we possess?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"The soul is on a rack; the rack of rest, / To souls most adverse; action all their joy."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Not the gross act alone employs her pen; / She reconnoitres Fancy's airy band, / A watchful foe! the formidable spy, / Listening, o'erhears the whispers of our camp; / Our dawning purposes of heart explores, / And steals our embryos of iniquity."
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