Date: 1744
""Reason with Inclination why at war? / Why sense of guilt? Why Conscience up in arms?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1748
"There is nothing more certain, that that there are two Kinds of Conviction, one flowing from a sudden and violent breaking-in of Truth, when the Understanding is as it were taken by Storm, and a Man's whole System of Thinking is changed in an Instant: the other a gradual, gentle, and slow steali...
preview | full record— Anonymous; [Lyttleton]
Date: 1759
"Learn first, a Conquest, o'er yourselves, to gain, / That o'er our Sex, you may victorious reign."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)