Date: 1674
"And as for the Bipartition of this Sensitive Soul into two principle members as it were, or active sourses; vix. the Fiery part, upon which Life depends; and the Lucid, from whence all the faculties Animal are, like so many distinct rayes of light, derived."
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: 1675
"They were i'th' dark, their heart was a dark room, / Till saving grace from God did thither come."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1675, 1746
"Were it so with the Soul (as some of the Philosophers have vainly imagined) to come into the World as an Ab rasa Tabula, a mere Blank or piece of white Paper, on which neither any Thing, written, nor any Blots; it would then be equally receptive of Good and Evil, and no more averse to the...
preview | full record— Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)
Date: 1675, 1746
"The Ground needs no other midwifery in bringing forth Weeds, than only the neglect of the Husbandman's Hand to pluck them up; the Air needs no other Cause of Darkness, than the Absence of Sun; nor water of Coldness, than its Distance from the Fire, because these are the genuine Products of ...
preview | full record— Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)
Date: 1678, 2nd edition in 1743
"That Vital Sympathy, by which our Soul is united and tied fast, as it were with a Knot, to the Body, is a thing that we have no direct Consciousness of, but only in its Effects."
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: c. 1680
"While man unmarr'd abode, his Spirits all / In Vivid hue were active in their hall."
preview | full record— Taylor, Edward (1642-1729)
Date: 1681
"For thou alone to people me, / Art grown a num'rous Colony; / And a Collection choicer far / Then or White-hall's, or Mantua's were."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: November, 1682
"They, who the written rule had never known, / Were to themselves both rule and law alone: / To nature's plain indictment they shall plead; / And, by their conscience, be condemn'd or freed."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1684
"You wish'd those Thoughts in bloody Ink were shrouded"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1684
"All in thy faithful Glass were so express'd, / As if they were Reflections of thy Breast, / As if they had been stamp'd on thy own mind"
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)