Date: 1764
" Virtue he lack'd, cursed with those thoughts which spring / In souls of vulgar stamp"
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Date: 1765
"My heart in groans its grief proclaims, / And melts, as wax before the flames"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"And my heart, within me burning, / Is become like melting wax."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
"Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"Are your thoughts by Justice sway'd, / And in Reason's balance weigh'd?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1766
One may suffer in the interior of his or her heart by the decease of another
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
"The word 'heavy', is more applicable to that, which loads the body; 'weighty', to that, which burdens the mind."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766
"'Excursions' are necessary to persons, in a sedentary way of life, in order, to unbend the mind, and, exercise the body."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766
"Considering these words, in a religious sense; that of 'fervency', seems to rise upon 'warmth'; 'warmth' implying, a flame of devotion, in opposition to coolness; 'fervency', great heat of mind, as opposed to coldness."
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Date: 1767
"A Mind is a balance for thousands a year."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)