Date: w. c. 54-8, trans. 1611
"But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
preview | full record— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Date: 1615
"And this power or faculty when the braine hath once receiued it from the heart, standeth in no neede of continuall and immediate assistance therefrom, but onely of a supply after some time: Euen as the Commander of an Army, who hauing receiued his authority and his company from the Prince, stand...
preview | full record— Crooke, Helkiah (1576-1648)
Date: 1646
"To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any."
preview | full record— Overton, Richard (fl. 1640-1663)
Date: 1674
"Secondly it seem'd to me no less unconceivable, whence that dismal ψυχομαχια or intestin war which every Man too frequently feels within himself, and whereof even St. Paul himself so sadly complained, when (in Epist. ad Roman. cap. 3.) he cries out, video aliam legem in membris meis repugnantem ...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: 1680
"O, 'tis confess'd; / And howsoe're my Tongue has plaid the Braggart, / She Reigns more fully in my Soul than ever: / She Garrisons my Breast, and Mans against me / Even my own Rebel thoughts, with thousand Graces, / Ten thousand Charms, and new discover'd Beauties."
preview | full record— Lee, Nathaniel (1653-1692)
Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"What Struglings and Conflicts are there betwixt the Animal Inclinations, and the more masculine Dictates of Reason?"
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)
Date: 1687
"At this enrag'd, the injur'd Deity / Chose out the best of his Artillery, / And in a blooming Virgin's Dove-like Eyes / He planted his Victorious Batteries; / (Phillis her Name, the best of Woman-kind, / Could Love have gain'd the Empire of her Mind) / These shot so furiously against my Heart, /...
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: c. 1695-8 [published 1907]
"You o'er my heart were born to reign / And bravely took it by Invasion."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1696
"The Sences in Confederacy raise Rebellion against reason; there now is a Civil War over all this Compound Tabernacle. Pride and Desire disturb the Harmony of Government, endeavouring to undermine the tottering Fabrick, and to hurl all into Chaos and Confusion."
preview | full record— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher
Date: 1696
"'Twas not with ease the Usurper got Possession here (went she on; pointing to her Heart) nor will he be with ease dislodg'd. All the Sighs and Tears it cost Emilius to gain this Virgin Heart, to bind it in the Inchanting Chains of Tyrannick Love; I must, with Interest, pay back, e'er I can set t...
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)