Date: 1605, 1640
"But the poets and writers of histories are the best doctors of this knowledge; where we may find painted forth, with great life, how affections are kindled and incited; and how pacified and refrained; and how again contained from act and further degree; how they disclose themselves; how they wor...
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1615
"Go too then, is not he said to know himself, who can tell how to temper and order the state and condition of his mind, how to appease those civil tumults within himself, by the storms and waves whereof he is pitifully tossed, and how to suppress and appease those varieties of passions wherewith ...
preview | full record— Crooke, Helkiah (1576-1648)
Date: 1615
"And this power or faculty when the braine hath once receiued it from the heart, standeth in no neede of continuall and immediate assistance therefrom, but onely of a supply after some time: Euen as the Commander of an Army, who hauing receiued his authority and his company from the Prince, stand...
preview | full record— Crooke, Helkiah (1576-1648)
Date: 1646
"To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any."
preview | full record— Overton, Richard (fl. 1640-1663)
Date: 1646
"To every Individuall in nature is given an individual property by nature, not to be invaded or usurped by any: for every one as he is himselfe, so he hath a selfe propriety"
preview | full record— Overton, Richard (fl. 1640-1663)
Date: 1655
"Therefore it belongs to the will as to the Generall of an Army to moove the other powers of the soul to their acts, and among the rest the understanding also, by applying it and reducing its power into act."
preview | full record— Bramhall, John (1594-1663)
Date: 1657
The fancy is a "Boundlesse, restlesse faculty, free from all engagements, diggs without spade, sails without Ships, Flies without wings, builds without charges, fights without bloodshed, in a moment striding from the Center to the circumference of the world, by a kind of omnipotency creating and ...
preview | full record— Poole, Joshua (c.1615–c.1656)
Date: 1659
"The same man fights with himself: Reason warres with the affection; and passion with passion"
preview | full record— Tubbe, Henry (1618-1655)