Date: 1694
"Wine is strong, and Kings are strong, but a Beautiful Woman fixes her unshaken Empire in the hearts of her Admirers, when all things totters."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1695
"[T]he priests, every where, to secure their empire, having excluded reason from having any thing to do in religion"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1698
"But when Vice is varnish'd over with Pleasure, and comes in the Shape of Convenience, the case grows somewhat dangerous; for then the Fancy may be gain'd, and the Guards corrupted, and Reason suborn'd against it self."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"A well work'd Poem is a powerful piece of Imposture: It masters the Fancy, and hurries it no Body knows whither.--If therefore we would be govern'd by Reason let us stand off from the Temptation, such Pleasures can have no good Meaning."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1699
"Those that were without a Law were a Law unto themselves, doing by nature the things contained in the Law, which shows the Law written in their hearts"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1699
"Their Consciences bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing them or excusing them"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1700
"As the form of man is the image of God, so the form of a government is the image of a man"
preview | full record— Harrington, James (1611-1677)
Date: 1700
"The soul of government, as the true and perfect image of the soul of man, is every whit as necessarily religious as rational."
preview | full record— Harrington, James (1611-1677)
Date: 1700, 1712
"And so our Saviour tells us, that 'whosoever committeth sin is the Servant of sin'; and this is the vilest and hardest Slavery in the World, because it is the Servitude of the Soul, the best and noblest part of our selves; 'tis the subjection of our Reason, which ought to rule and bear Sway over...
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
Date: 1700, 1712
"And as Inferiour Persons, when they are advanced to Power, are strangely Insolent and Tyrannical towards those that are subject to them; so the Lusts and Passions of men, when they once get the Command of them, are the most domineering Tyrants in the World; and there is no such Slave as a Man th...
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630-1694)