Date: 1700
"And so, tho they have Reason, yet are they not Reasonable, because that Reason is none of their own, only as Gifted, that is, Accidental, but not Natural to them; and so they can no more be called Rational, than a Bag can be called Rich, that has Money in it."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700, 1703, 1709
"But left th'Impression deep upon my Mind / Of DUNCOMB honour'd, and AUGUSTA kind."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1700
"No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poets mind; / Majestick was his Style, and unconfin'd."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1700, 1717
"He, tho' from Heav'n remote, to Heav'n cou'd move, / With Strength of Mind, and tread th' Abyss above; / And penetrate with his interior Light / Those upper Depths, which Nature hid from Sight"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
"In short, taking it for granted, that we two understand one another by half a Word, I will set both his and my Imagination on the Ramble."
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1700
"Or a Bartholomew-Baby Beau, newly Launch'd out of a Chocolate-House, with his Pockets as empty as his Brains."
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1700
"Here walk'd a Fellow with a long white Rod on his Shoulder, that's asham'd to cry his Trade, though he gets his Living by it; another bawling out TODD's Four Volumes in Print, which a Man in Reading of, wou'd wonder that so much Venom should not tear him to pieces, but that some of the ancient M...
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1700
"What does the World think of this holding up the Buckler, they put but a bad Construction upon it, and say that his Conscience is Ulcerated, that you cannot touch any String, but it will answer to some painful place."
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1700
"The soul of government, as the true and perfect image of the soul of man, is every whit as necessarily religious as rational."
preview | full record— Harrington, James (1611-1677)
Date: 1700
"When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the Voice of Reason"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)