Date: 1778
"I should have hoped that a man of his knowledge--and who has studied in the manner he [Dr. Blair] must have done--(being a professor of the Belles Lettres,) might have emancipated his mind from the shackles of system."
preview | full record— Caulfield (fl. 1778)
Date: 1778
"We can earnestly endeavour to avoid evil, only by a uniform disposition to combat our appetites and passions."
preview | full record— Caulfield (fl. 1778)
Date: 1778
"Unless the ruling propensity of the mind be habitually resisted, and generally with effect, our charity, and all those good dispositions which we possess by nature, will have no weight in recommending us to God."
preview | full record— Caulfield (fl. 1778)
Date: 1784
"The Author of this little Essay, very philanthropically, but he fears, very vainly, wishes, that some much abler Chymist of this kind than himself, could once compose and exhibit such an attractive, and palatable preservative against all infection of the mind, as might be greedily purchased and ...
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Date: 1829
"Death is only the removal of an immortal soul from dead matter, which many have considered merely as a clog to the soul."
preview | full record— Balfour, Walter (1776-1852)
Date: 1829
"And if the man is as complete without the body, as he is without the house he resides in, the immortal soul ought to be thankful when it gets quit of the body."
preview | full record— Balfour, Walter (1776-1852)