Date: 1596
"In this respect [conscience] may fitly be compared to a notarie, or a register that hath alwaies the penne in his hand, to note and record whatsoeuer is saide or done: who also because he keepes the rolles and records of the court, can tell what hath bin said and done many hundred yeares past."
preview | full record— Perkins, William (1558-1602)
Date: 1642
"The heart of man is the place the Devils dwell in: I feel sometimes a Hell within my self; Lucifer keeps his Court in my breast, Legion is revived in me."
preview | full record— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)
Date: 1646
"To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any."
preview | full record— Overton, Richard (fl. 1640-1663)
Date: 1660, 1676
"That is, of that which God hath declared to be good or evil respectively, the conscience is to be informed. God hath taken care that his laws shall be published to all his subjects, he hath written them where they must needs read them, not in Tables of stone or Phylacteries on the forehead, but ...
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1667
"Conscience is Christs Vicar in mans heart, / It keeps Court there, and acts the Judges part"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: August, 1674; 1675
"But thou who art not ignorant of my Rivals affairs, tell me, what passes in his Court, in his Soul!"
preview | full record— Crowne, John (bap. 1641, d. 1712)
Date: 1696
"The Prince, at this moment, banish'd from his Breast the Idea of all the Court-Beauties he had ever seen, and gaz'd on this Master-piece of Nature so long, till he had imprinted Cordelia's Image too deep for time ever to deface."
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1702
"Shall then the seeming Beauty of this thing / So dis-ingage from Duty to the King / Of Glory, who alone should rule in Man? / The Heart should be his Throne."
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
"Reason, that honours Mankind more than Beast, / Gives forth its Laws and Dictates in each Breast"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
"Modesty, that in their Bosom reigns, / Detests and loaths whatever spots or stains"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)