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Date: 1714, 1739
Two woman may "with equal Ardor assure [themselves] of the Empire of a [man's] heart
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1739
"All the Revolutions that inhuman Fortune can expose us to, the Loss of Grandeur, Persecutions, the Poison of Envy, and the Insults of Hatred, have nothing in 'em but what the Resolutions of a Mind where Reason has the least Rule, can easily defy."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1739
"Philosophy ... raises [one] above the rest of human Kind, and gives the sovereign Empire to Reason, subjecting the animal Part to its Laws, the gross Appetite of which debases us to Beasts"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1739
"This Empire which Reason holds over the Senses, does not make us renounce the Sweets of Praise"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1739
A woman may have one heart in subjection to her empire
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1739
"Ask ye what Law their conq'ring Cause confess'd? / Great Nature's Law, the Law within the Breast, / Form'd by no Art, and to no Sect confin'd, / But stamp'd by Heav'n upon th' unletter'd Mind."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"By Personal Freedom I mean that State resulting from Virtue; or Reason ruling in the Breast superior to Appetite and Passion."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"Base Fear, the Laziness of Lust, gross Appetites, / These are the Ladders, and the groveling Footstool, / From whence the Tyrant rises on our Wrongs, / Secure and scepter'd in the Soul's Servility."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"No---in the deep and deadly Damp of Dungeons / The Soul can rear her Sceptre, smile in Anguish, / And triumph o'er Oppression."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"I am all / That's left to calm, to sooth his troubled Soul, / To Penitence, to Virtue; and perhaps / Restore the better Empire o'er his Mind, / True Seat of all Dominion."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
