Date: 1767
"The promise and the prayer is seal'd, / Seal'd on her heart in gospel-peace."
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Date: 1767
"The witness breathe into my heart, / And seal my sins forgiven."
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Date: 1767
"But graciously forgive me, / And seal it on my heart."
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Date: 1767
"And fill up all Thy human shrine, / And seal our souls for ever Thine"
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Date: 1767, 1784
"Shall we, because we strive in vain to tell / How Matter acts on incorporeal Mind, / Or how, when sleep has lock'd up ev'ry sense, / Or fevers rage, Imagination paints / Unreal scenes, reject what sober sense, / And calmest thought attest?"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1769
"For every Creature of this World, animate or inanimate, is in its Degree, a Microcosm of all the Powers, that are in the great World, of which it is a Part."
preview | full record— Law, William (1686-1761)
Date: 1770
"Excursive thought" may "Stand still a moment, and by reason taught / Judge rightly, with strict eye thyself survey"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Though Fancy under Reason's lash may fall, / Yet Fancy in Religion's all in all"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1770-1
"This rather disconcerted his scheme, and set him a scratching, that being a kind of involuntary motion with him, whenever a train of ideas kept whirling in his brain with such velocity that he could not fix on any single one to stick by, and let the rest whirl out the way they came in."
preview | full record— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)
Date: 1771
"When we contemplate a Portrait, without thinking of whom it is the Portrait, such Contemplation is analogous to PHANSY. When we view it with reference to the Original, whom it represents, such Contemplation is analogous to MEMORY"
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)