Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Strike, to beat or hit, to affect or make an Impression upon the Senses or Mind; to make Measure even with a Strike or Strickle,"
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Agitation, an agitating, violent Motion, joulting, tumbling or tossing; Disturbance ro Disquiet of Mind, Trouble; also the management of Business in Hand. In a Philosophical Sense, the brisk inward Motion of the Corpuscles or very small Parts of any natural Body."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Imprint, to Engrave, or fix a thing in one's Mind."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Longanimity, (Lat. q.d. Length of Mind) Longsuffering, great Patices, or Forbearance. "
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Date: 1706
"Did this state of mind remain always so, every one would, without scruple, give it the name of perfect madness; and whilst it does last, at whatever intervals it returns, such a rotation of thoughts about the same object no more carries us forwards towards the attainment of knowledge, than getti...
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Date: 1706
"'Till then be kind, and leave me to my self; / Leave me to vent the Fulness of my Breast, / Pour out the Sorrows of my Soul alone, / And sigh my self, if possible, to Peace."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1706
"Behold that! that!--more dreadful than Medusa, / It drives my Soul back to her inmost Seats, / And freezes every stiff'ning Limb to Marble."
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Date: Dated August 6, 1707; 1711
"The mind of man is at first (if you will pardon the expression) like a tabula rasa, or like wax, which, while it is soft, is capable of any impression, till time has hardened it."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1707
"How sad our State by Nature is! / Our Sin how deep it stains! / And Satan binds our captive Minds / Fast in his slavish Chains."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"Why should we vex and grieve his love, / Who seals our souls to heavenly life?"
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