Date: 1721
"To this, and all the Ages that succeeds: / His Actions are engrav'd in ev'ry Breast."
preview | full record— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)
Date: 1721, 1722
"There are few women abandoned enough to go this length; they all bear in their hearts a certain impression of virtue, naturally engraved on them, which though their education may weaken, it cannot destroy."
preview | full record— Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Date: 1721, 1722
"This noble passion is indeed always engraved upon their hearts; but imagination and education mould it a thousand ways."
preview | full record— Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Date: April 18, 1721
"If, after Death, our Forms (as some believe) / Shall be transparent, naked every Thought, / And Friends meet Friends, and read each other's Hearts, / Thou'lt know one day, that thou wast held most dear. / Farewel."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1722
"Yon Knight said he, in War is so expert, / And has it so engraven on his Heart, / That he unto a very Point does know, / Each Stratagem, and nice Punctilio."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)
Date: 1722
" The Print of Love new-stamp'd his ductile Breast, / And with soft Characters his Soul Imprest"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)
Date: 1722
"For before the Vessel be seasoned with one kind of Liquor, it is equally capable of all, and so the Wax is indifferent to any Impression, before it is moulded and determined by a particular Seal: If the Mind be a rasa Tabula, as Aristotle would have it, then this White Paper may best be i...
preview | full record— Hartcliffe, John (1651/2-1712)
Date: 1722
"I believe my mistress herself has signed and sealed, in her heart, to Mr. Myrtle--did I not bid you kiss me but once and be gone?"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Sir, let her crime / Erase the faithful characters, which love / Imprinted on your heart."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1722, 1723
The "Laws of Honour" may be "printed by the Laws of Nature in the Breast of a Soldier, or a Man of Honour"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)