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: 1719-1720, 1725
"I can no longer withstand the too powerful Magick of your Eyes, nor deny any Thing that charming Tongue can ask; but now's the Time to prove your self a Heroe! subdue your self, as you have conquer'd me! be satisfied with vanquishing my Soul, fix there your Throne, but leave my Honour free!"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1723
"Can Kings the Empire of the Soul invade?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1799
"The heart and the mind are prejudiced judges, ever at war with consistency and truth; they recoil with indignation from the smallest speck on another's conduct, yet pass with exultation over the mountain that darkens their own"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)