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Date: 1682
"Every Man has a Judge, and a Witness within himself, of all the Good, and lll that he Does; which inspires us with great Thoughts, and administers to us wholsome Counsels."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1682
"Shall any Man see the Glory, and Order of the Universe; so many scatter'd Parts, and Qualities wrought into one Mass; such a Medly of Things, which are yet distinguished; the World enlighten'd, and the Disorders of it so wonderfully Regulated; and, shall he not consider the Author, and Disposer ...
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1682
"Who would so much Unman himself, as by accepting of them, to desert his Soul, and become a perpetual Slave to his Senses?"
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1683
"Falsely they [sense and rhyme] seem each other to oppose; / Rhyme must be made with Reason's laws to close; / And when to conquer her you bend your force, / The mind will triumph in the noble course."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1683
"To Reason's yoke she quickly will incline, / Which, far from hurting, renders her divine; / But if neglected, will as easily stray, / And master Reason, which she should obey."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1684
Reason may fix "its peaceful Throne" in the mind and reign alone
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"The Will its easie Neck to Bondage gave, / And to the ruling Faculty became a Slave."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1686
"That many-headed Monster [the passions] has thrown down / Its lawful Monarch Reason from its Throne."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"As soon as ever the Parts begin to be form'd by Nature, this Animal and active Principle begins to exert its Heat and Force, being lodged in the Heart as in the Centre of the Body, from whence, as the Vessels begin also to be form'd, it distributes it self towards the extreme Regions, communicat...
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)
