Date: 1731
"But now, in the Room of this Artificial Book in Volumes, let us Substitute the Book of Nature, the whole Visible and Material Universe, printed all over with the Passive Characters and Impressions of Divine Wisdom and Goodness, but legible only to an Intellectual Eye."
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1731
The "Cognoscitive Power of the Soul" unfolds and displays itself, "As the Spermatick or Plastick Power doth Virtually contain within it self, the Forms of all the Several Organical Parts of Animals, and displays them gradually and Successively, framing an Eye-here and an Ear there."
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"If a man's Body be under confinement, or he be impotent in his Limbs, he is then deprived of his bodily Liberty: And for the same Reason, if his Mind be blinded by sottish Errors, and his Reason over-ruled by violent Passions; is not This likewise plainly as great a Slavery and as ...
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: May 6, 1736
"These first Characters therefore ought to be deeply and beautifully struck, and the Learning they express should be of great Price. And this, if timely Care be taken, may be done with ease because the Mind is then soft and tender: and because Truth and Right are by the nature of Things, as pleas...
preview | full record— Denne, John (1693-1767)
Date: 1737
"That man makes a mean figure in the eye of reason, who is measuring syllables and coupling rhimes, when he should be mending his own soul and securing his own immortality."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737, 1743
"Our Passions are like Convulsion-Fits, which, although they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737, 1743
"Superstition is the Spleen of the Soul."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737, 1743
"Wit in Conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of Expression, or (in the Midwives Phrase) a quick Conception and an easie Delivery."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737
"You see 'tis with weak heads as with weak stomachs, they immediately throw out what they received last; and what they read floats upon the surface of their mind, like oil upon water, without incorporating."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1739-40
"The understanding, like the eye (says Mr. Locke), whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)