Date: 1749

"Long did our lusts and passions reign, / And ruled us with an iron rod"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1749

"Open a window in our breast, / That each our heart may see"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1749

"See them to the windows fly, / To the ark of Jesu's breast!"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1756

"This heart is become a mere rasa tabula; you must help it to the [GREEK CHARACTERS], you must lay in it the foundation of natural religion, (i.e. "the dictates of common sense, for natural religion, according to Mr. H. is nothing else,) if you would raise the superstr...

— Patten, Thomas (1714-1790)

Date: 1756

"And stamp Thine image on our hearts"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1757

"For, as an alloy to its very great advantages, there is something selfish, ungenerous and illiberal in the nature and views of trade, that tends to debase and sink the mind below its natural state."

— Harris, Joseph (bap. 1704, d. 1764)

Date: 1757

"Did I wait upon Bishop Gibson to acquaint him that I was a Free-thinker, that my mind was a tabula rasa!"

— Bower, Archibald (1686-1766)

Date: 1757-9

"To Gold yields Silver, and to Virtue Gold, / If Reason's Hand th'impartial Balance hold."

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

Date: 1758

"There are few moralists who know how to arm our passions against one another."

— Helvétius, Claude Adrien (1715-1771)

Date: 1760

"Sudden my verses take the rude alarm, / New-coin'd, and from the mint of fancy warm"

— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)