Date: 1756, 1766

"[T]he gospel makes the very religion of nature, a main part of what it requires, and submits all that it reveals to the test of the law of reason"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"It is rebellion to refuse subjection to right reason, and a violation of the great and fundamental law of heaven and earth."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"Let us hearken then to the original law of reason, and follow God and nature as the sure guide to happiness."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

Too much gold "gives the passions the commanding influence, and makes reason receive law from appetite"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

A passion may be "rebellious and lawless"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

Too much gold "gives the passions the commanding influence, and makes reason receive law from appetite."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1759

The passions may "rebel against their proper Guide, and forcibly snatch the Reins out of the Hands of that Governor appointed to restrain and keep them within their own prescribed Bounds"

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)

Date: 1759

"You will easily believe that I was pleased with his courtesy; and finding that his predominant passion was desire of money, I began now to think my danger less, for I knew that no sum would be thought too great for the release of Pekuah."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: 1759

"He shewed, with great strength of sentiment, and variety of illustration, that human nature is degraded and debased, when the lower faculties predominate over the higher."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: 1759

"The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)