Date: 1691
"Sin is the Sickness of the Soul."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627–1705)
Date: 1691
"Trade is the very Life and Soul of the Universe, which, like the Vital Blood in the Body, Circulates to the Health, and well-being of the whole, and when by the failure of Industry, there is a stop put to Commerce, it often proves as fatal to the Body Politick, as the stagnating of the Blood doe...
preview | full record— Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir (1649-1697)
Date: 1691
"Now Reading may very properly be compar'd to Eating, and Thinking to Digesting, as therefore to one Hours Eating, we allow many hours for Digesting; so to one hours Reading, we should assign Sufficient time for Meditating, and Digesting, what we have Read."
preview | full record— Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir (1649-1697)
Date: 1691
"So the other be of no less Prejudice to the understanding, by occasioning Diseases of the Mind."
preview | full record— Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir (1649-1697)
Date: 1692
"He has clearly overthrown all those Metaphysical Whymsies, which infected mens Brains with a Spice of Madness, whereby they feign'd a Knowledge where they had none, by making a noise with Sounds, without clear and distinct Significations."
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
Date: 1692
"Abandon'd to a callousness and numness of soul"
preview | full record— Bentley, Richard (1662-1742)
Date: 1692
"[T]he Explanation whereof is allowed by all men as satisfactory, 'tis this, in Tab. 41. Fig. 2. the Image a b of the Object A B is painted on the Retina inverted, and yet the Eye (or rather the Soul by means of the Eye) sees the Object erect and in its natural Posture."
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
Date: 1694, 1704
"Crescit indulgens sibi dirus hydrops, every lust is a kind of hydropick distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst."
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630–1694)
Date: 1697
"You compare Cogitation in a Spirit, to Motion in a Body, and so Cessation from Thought in a a Spirit, must answer to Rest in a Body"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)