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Date: 1722
"[O]r that hence, as swiftly those imperceptible Messengers called animal Spirits, should, at the Nutus Animae, rush through their Meandrous Paths like Lightning, and having dispatched the Mandates of the Will, as speedily bring back their Errand to the common Sensory."
preview | full record— Turner, Daniel (1667-1741)
Date: March, 1722
"[T]he many dismal Objects, which happened everywhere as I went about the Streets, had fill'd my Mind with a great deal of Horror, for fear of the Distemper it self, which was indeed, very horrible in it self, and in some more than in others, the swellings which were generally in the Neck, or Gro...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: March, 1722
"I would be far from lessening the Awe of the Judgments of God, and the Reverence to his Providence, which ought always to be on our Minds on such Occasions as these."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"I met her this morning in a new manteau and petticoat, not a bit worse for her lady's wearing, and she has always new thoughts and new airs with new clothes."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"The disappointed advocate, finding she had so unexpected a support, on cooler thoughts descended to a composition, which I, without her knowledge, secretly discharged."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"But my father, in his heart, still has a mind to him, were it not for this woman they talk of."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"Whither does my fancy carry me?"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"You say this because I wrung you to the heart when I touched your guilty conscience about Judy"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
One's "vital life" dwells in the heart
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"I say, thus it is with me while I see him; and in his absence I am entertained with nothing but your endeavors to tear this image from my heart and, in its stead, to place a base dissembler, and artful invader of my happiness, my innocence, my honor."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
