Date: w. c. 1210
"The measuring line of his mind lays out the work, and he mentally outlines the successive steps in a definite order."
preview | full record— Vinsauf, Geoffrey of [called Galfridus Anglicus] (fl. 1208-1213)
Date: w. c. 1210
"Let the mind's interior compass first circle the whole extent of the material."
preview | full record— Vinsauf, Geoffrey of [called Galfridus Anglicus] (fl. 1208-1213)
Date: 1698
"Nay, such Gentlemen would be much offended their Houses should not be clean Swept, and Garnish'd; yet, they are not, in the least, concern'd, that Cobwebs should hang in the Windows of their Intellect, and Dusty Ignorance dim and blear the Sight of the Noble Inhabitant."
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"For, in case those Impressions on our Mind could have been made by means of the Senses, as aforesaid; then those Impressions, or Notions, being the Immediate Foundation, on which is built all our Knowledge, could not be call'd, or resembl'd to Rubbish; nor compar'd to a Hole, to lay the Foundati...
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1704
"Wherefore consecrate the first Fruits of Reason to God; you can't begin the Practice of Piety too soon, but may be too late; Nature untainted with Vice may be wrought with ease into any Form, and cast in any Mould"
preview | full record— Darrell, William (1651-1721)
Date: 1704
"It's a kind of tabula rasa, a Blank, that almost with the same Facility receives the Characters of Angel, and of Devil; but when once it's stained with Sin, when it's by-assed by ill Habits, and worse Principles, you will find it stubborn and rebellious."
preview | full record— Darrell, William (1651-1721)
Date: 1705
"At length a Court of Conscience is erected by the Mind, where all particular Acts are scrupulously examined, by reason of these frequent Variances of the Souls, the Animal Spirits, as being too much, and in a manner perpetually exercised, and being commanded here and there contrary ways, and alm...
preview | full record— Beaumont, John (c.1640-1731)
Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"As on the Nosegay in her Breast reclin'd, / He watch'd th' Ideas rising in her Mind, / Sudden he view'd, in spite of all her Art, / An Earthly Lover lurking at her Heart."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"But wasting Cares lay heavy on his Mind"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"A brave Mind however blinded with Passion is sensible of Remorse as soon as the injur'd Object presents itself; and Paris never behaves himself ill in War, but when his Spirits are depress'd by the Consciousness of an Injustice."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)