Date: 1700
"As the form of man is the image of God, so the form of a government is the image of a man"
preview | full record— Harrington, James (1611-1677)
Date: 1700
"Nay some affirm that in the deepest Cell / Imperial Reason's self does not disdain to dwell."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
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
"She who Elects a Monarch for Life, who gives him an Authority she cannot recall however he misapply it, who puts her Fortune and Person entirely in his Power; nay even the very desires of her Heart according to some learned Casuists, so as that it is not lawful to Will or Desire any thing but wh...
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666–1731)
Date: 1700
"Superiors indeed are too apt to forget the common Priviledges of Mankind; that their Inferiors share with them the greatest Benefits, and are as capable as themselves of enjoying the supreme Good; that tho' the Order of the World requires an Outward Respect and Obedience from some to others, yet...
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666–1731)
Date: 1700
"Not as an absolute Lord and Master, with an Arbitrary and Tyrannical sway, but as Reason Governs and Conducts a Man, by proposing what is Just and Fit."
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666–1731)
Date: 1700, 1717
"This Helenus to great AEneas told, / Which I retain, e'er since in other Mould: / My Soul was cloath'd; and now rejoice to view / My Country Walls rebuilt, and Troy reviv'd anew, / Rais'd by the fall: Decreed by Loss to Gain; / Enslav'd but to be free, and conquer'd but to reign."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
"The Passions still predominant will rule, / Ungovern'd, rude, not bred in Reason's School."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700, 1712
"And so our Saviour tells us, that 'whosoever committeth sin is the Servant of sin'; and this is the vilest and hardest Slavery in the World, because it is the Servitude of the Soul, the best and noblest part of our selves; 'tis the subjection of our Reason, which ought to rule and bear Sway over...
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630-1694)