Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"Again, the pen as a whole does not move in exactly the same way as its lower end; on the contrary, the upper part of the pen seems to have a quite different and opposite movement. This enables us to understand how all the movements of other animals can come about, even though we refuse to allow ...
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"Secondly, when an external sense organ is stimulated by an object, the figure which it receives is conveyed at one and the same moment to another part of the body known as the 'common' sense, without any entity really passing from the one to the other. In exactly the same way I understand that w...
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Date: 1685
The Lord may "bear my Name upon [his] Breast, / Engrave it on [his] Heart"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1685
One may bear God's "Image and Inscription" upon his heart
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1685
"O Seal mine Image on thy Heart, / O Seal it on thy Arm"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1687, 1691
"The Cardinal who pretends to read the Souls of Men, and who is inferior to none perhaps in this Art, caused this Person who had so long attended, to be called to him, and thus spake to him."
preview | full record— Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]
Date: 1687, 1691
"The Cardinal who pretends to read the Souls of Men, and who is inferior to none perhaps in this Art, caused this Person who had so long attended, to be called to him, and thus spake to him."
preview | full record— Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]
Date: 1687, 1691
"And above all things, let us carefully observe this Precept, writ in the Book of their Law, but is not always imprinted in their Hearts, Never do to Others, no not thy Enemies, that which thou wouldst not have done to thy self."
preview | full record— Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]
Date: 1687, 1691
"Engrave these Words in thy Heart: Love ever what is honest, and hate always what is contrary to it."
preview | full record— Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]
Date: 1689
"And Cain was so fully convinced, that every one had a Right to destroy such a Criminal, that after the Murther of his Brother, he cries out, 'every one that findeth me, shall slay me', so plain was it writ in the Hearts of all Mankind."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)