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Date: 1694
A "Mothers strange Imaginations, and divers Phantasms" "deform the Body" of her child
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Date: 1694
The Mother's imagination "may sometimes determine the Sex" of an unborn child
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Date: 1694
The woman's force of imagination "is certainly very prevalent in the causing of the Child to be of this or that Sex" during the act of coition
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Date: 1694
"For although the Soul is said to reside in one place, it operates in every part, exercising every Member, which are the Souls Instruments, by which she manifesteth her power; but if it so happen, that any of the Organical parts are out of Tune, the work is confused."
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
"Nay, so far were the Heathens, by the Light of Nature, from doubting the Immortality of the Soul, that Plato in his 'Phaedro' thus reasons; viz. What consists out of Elements (says he) is Immortal and can never dye. The Soul is not made of Elements, nor of created matter, but came from God, and ...
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
"Then may it be without difficulty granted, that the Body which has been a long Companion of the Souls, will once again enjoy it never more to be separated; for the Body at the Resurrection shall be incorruptible and so as far from a capacity of perishing any more as the Soul, made so by him, tha...
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Date: 1696
"The Common Lawyers devour the Body and Estate, the Spiritual Court the Soul."
preview | full record— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher
Date: 1696
"A Devil Gnaws and Tears my Breast."
preview | full record— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher
Date: Monday, December 17, 1711
"Now as to the peculiar Qualities of the Eye, that fine Part of our Constitution seems as much the Receptacle and Seat of our Passions, Appetites and Inclinations as the Mind it self; and at least it is the outward Portal to introduce them to the House within, or rather the common Thorough-fare t...
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Date: 1712 [1706-1721]
"Sir, said the young man, for God’s sake do not stop me, let me go, I cannot without horror look upon that abominable barber; though he is born in a country where all the natives are whites, he resembles an Ethiopian; and when all is come to all, his soul is yet blacker and yet more horrible than...
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