Date: 1712, 1736
One may be a Lord but in Title, a vassal in Effect, "Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct"
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1712, 1736
There are sovereign Lords "Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct; / The Reigns of Empire but such Hands disgrace, / Where Passion, a blind Driver, guides the Race."
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1718
"There's not room in a Woman's Heart for more than one Object at a time."
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: 1718
"Pierce this treacherous Heart, which Vice so long has held in Chains."
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: 1720
"Nay more, when thou art dead, I won't leave thy Soul in Quiet--for I will go streight to thy House, break open they Chests, and scatter thy Gold and Silver, which is thy Soul"
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Date: 1736
Love and Reason may make war within one's breast
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1732, 1736
Reason may over-rule fancy
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1754
"I shall not, therefore, say any thing further about the nature of mind in general, that secret spring of thought, unknown and unknowable, but shall content myself to observe, in Mr. Locke's method and with his assistance, something about the phænomena of the human mind, by which we may judge sur...
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
Date: 1754
"I say, we may judge surely of them; because our ideas are the foundations, or the materials, call them which you please, of all our knowledge; because without entering into an enquiry concerning the origin of them, we may know so certainly as to exclude all doubt, what ideas we have; and because...
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
Date: 1754
"The human soul is so far from being furnished with forms and ideas to perceive all things by, or from being impregnated, I would rather say than printed over, with the seeds of universal knowledge, that we have no ideas till we receive passively the ideas of sensible qualities from without."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)