Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
A woman may be "possessed of that vigour of mind which constitutes true fortitude, and vindicates the empire of reason"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1762
"Reason governed her thoughts and actions, nor could the greatest flow of spirits make her for a moment forget propriety."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1763
"I will leave Belmont: her will is the law of my heart; yet a few days I must give to love."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"Arriving there, he sought the gloomiest shades, as best suited to the pleasing melancholy that reigned in his mind."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
The "Action and Reaction" of different Estates "produces that general and systematic Controul which, like Conscience, pervades and superintends the Whole, checking and prohibiting Evil from every Part of the Constitution"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
A beloved may be a "Regent within" and "sit throned in [a lover's] Heart"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
An affection may get "an habitual Empire in the Mind"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"But I see another Law in my Members, warring against the Law of my Mind, and bringing me into Captivity to the Law of Sin, which is in my Members."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"And, indeed, as the Apostle writes, those, who never learned his Law, yet, having his Law, or rather Himself, in their Hearts, shall be justified"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"Saint Paul, bears Testimony, also, to the Impression of this Law of Rights on the Consciences and Hearts of all Men" in Romans, chapter 2: "Not the Hearers of the Law are just before God, but the Doers of the Law shall be justified. For, when the Gentiles, which have not the Law, do by Nature th...
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)