Date: 1754
"O, come; indignant, drive out, far beyond/ The utmost Precincts of the human Breast, / Beyond the Springs of Hope, the Cells of Joy, / And ev'ry Mansion where a Virtue lives; / O drive far off, for ever drive that Bane, / That hideous Pest, engender'd deep in Hell, / Where Stygian Glooms condens...
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1755
" When knowledge vainly tries, to form a rule / For female minds;--ev'n knowledge is a fool. / Nor can the laws of art, or nature fix, / Nor wise philosophy, the wondrous sex"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1756
"Many Things have been said, and very well undoubtedly, on the Subjection in which we should preserve our Bodies to the Government of our Understanding; but enough has not been said upon the Restraint which our bodily Necessities ought to lay on the extravagant Sublimities, and excentrick Rovings...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1756
"Infernal Jealousy! thou foe to rest, / Despotic ruler in the female breast, / Of Love begot, unnatural, and dire, / Thou prey'st upon the vitals of thy fire."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1756, 1766
"Then only you are qualified for life, when you are able to oppose your appetites, and bravely dare to call your opinions to account; when you have established judgment or reason as the ruler in your mind, and by a patience of thinking, and a power of resisting, before you choose, can bring your ...
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
Gold may invert the proper order of mind and body and produce "an apostasy that sets the inferior powers in the throne, and enslaves the mind to the body"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
We are "endued with an understanding which can acquire large moral dominion, and may ... sit as queen upon the throne over the whole corporeal system"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
"This is the excellent law of reason or nature. There is a light sufficient in every human breast, to conduct the soul to perfect day, if men will follow it right onwards"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
"But this is far from being the case of all gentlemen. If there be something stronger than virtue in too many of them, something that masters and subdues it; a passion, or passions, rebellious and lawless, which makes them neglect some high relations, and take the throne from God and reason; gami...
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
"The throne of God rests upon reason"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)