Date: 1735
"He seemed therefore confident, that instead of Reason, we were only possessed of some Quality fitted to increase our natural Vices; as the Reflection from a troubled Stream returns the Image of an ill-shapen Body, not only larger, but more distorted."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1739
"In reason's light, eternal word, exprest, / Stamp'd with his image in the creature's breast"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"In the pure splendor of substantial light, / The beam divine of Reason bless'd his sight."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"But as the moon reflecting borrow'd day, /Sheds on our shadow'd world a feeble ray: /Some scatter'd beams of Reason law contains, /While Order's rule must be enforc'd by pains"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1749
"Nature's bright Mirrour in thy Bosom shone"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1752
"Is not Ambition glutted with my Store? / And yet that faithful Mirror of the Mind, / Reflection, still a gloomy Prospect shews."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: 1753
"Still to my Sight, in Fancy's Mirror seen, / With all the Energy of Voice and Mien, / Still Barry's Force o'erwhelms my shrinking Heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1756, 1766
"I will love thee therefore, O Lord, my strength; yea, I will love thee: and it ever shall be my heart's desire, that my soul may behold by faith in its self, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, able and ready to change it into the same image from glory to glory, reflected upon, and conveyed to...
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
From "the natural lights of our understanding" we have the highest reason to conclude we will be rewarded or punished in the afterlife
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
God may cast his "bright beams of light upon our souls, and irradiate our understandings with the rays of ... wisdom"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)