Date: 1678
"A Weak mind complains before it is overtaken with evil, and as Birds are affrighted with the noise of the Sling, so the infirm soul anticipates its troubles by its own fearful apprehensions, and falls under them before they are yet arrived."
preview | full record— Wanley, Nathaniel (1634-1680)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
The Understanding's "searches after Truth, are a sort of Hawking and Hunting, wherein the very pursuit makes a great part of the Pleasure"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"How far such an one [one in whom "decrepid old Age" has blotted out Memory] (notwithstanding all that is boasted of innate Principles) is in his Knowledge, and intellectual Faculties, above the Condition of a Cockle, or an Oyster, I leave to be considered."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"The ignorance and darkness that is in us, no more hinders nor confines the knowledge that is in others, than the blindness of a mole is an argument against the quicksightedness of an eagle"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1694
The body, like a grasshopper that has grown old, may cast off his skin and "a lively new shrill insect will come forth of it"
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
The body may be resurrected, like "a dying and sluggish Catterpiller" that becomes a lively painted Butterfly.
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
The body may be resurrected, like an ant that becomes a "winged fly."
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
The body may be resurrected, like the Silk-worm, which "after many days, seeming dead and motionless, becomes a Butterfly."
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
"But above all, the Phaenix , that the Learned Lactantius writes of, may put us in mind, if not confirm to us the Resurrection, for after she has lived in the Arabian Fields (as some affirm) about 600 Years, and finding her self wasted with Age and Infirmity, she gathers the ...
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694, 1704
"If we govern ourselves in the use of sensual delight, by the Laws of God and reason, we shall find ourselves more at ease than if we should let loose the reins to our appetites and lusts."
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630–1694)