Date: 1707
The mind may be "soak'd in the bottom of the Belly" of one's Ignorance so that he needs the syrup of understanding and knowledge "to liquify the Matter" of his thoughts.
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Date: 1707
The mind may be "soak'd in the bottom of the Belly" of one's Ignorance so that he needs the syrup of understanding and knowledge "to liquify the Matter" of his thoughts
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Date: Dated August 6, 1707; 1711
"The mind of man is at first (if you will pardon the expression) like a tabula rasa, or like wax, which, while it is soft, is capable of any impression, till time has hardened it."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1707
"Lest any understand what I have said a few Pages hence as if I wholly denied common Innate Principles, observe, That it is only actual Connate Knowledge that I deny, and in respect to which I say that the Soul is rasa tabula; but I confess a Natural Passive power for the knowing of them a...
preview | full record— Baxter, Richard (1615-1691)
Date: 1707, 1709
"So fell Great Britains Orpheus in his Rage, / When Furies in his Breast began to howl, / And Cares that wait on Life's uncertain Stage, / Had quite untun'd his Soul."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1707, 1709
Mr Clark "Conquer'd those Vipers in his Conscience bred, / And with himself, shot all the stinging Fantoms dead"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1707, 1710
"Reason will judge, when both their Claims produce."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707, 1710
"So can the pow'rful Grape our Reason cheat, / And o'er our giddy Fancy reign."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707, 1710
"But now I come to cure my fond Disease; / This Steel thy flinty Breast will surely please."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707, 1710
"O Sacharissa, what could steel thy Breast, / To Rob Harmonious Waller of his Rest?"
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)