Date: 1694
"For as dung and good manuring restores ground that is worn and heartless," so does a good diet restore the faint heart, the weak spirit, and cold, dry genitals
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
The body may be resurrected like "Grain thrown into the Ground" that continues there "for a season, as if lost and dead, but when warmth and moisture gives it force, it springs up, and bears a hundred-fold" in the "Resurrection of the Spring."
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1698
"This sort of Musick warms the Passions, and unlocks the Fancy, and makes it open to Pleasure like a Flower to the Sun."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1699
The opponent of innatism "might as well expect, that in a Seed, there should be Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit; or that in the rudiments of an Embryo there should be all the Parts and Members of a compleat Body, distinctly represented"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1704
"Wherefore consecrate the first Fruits of Reason to God; you can't begin the Practice of Piety too soon, but may be too late; Nature untainted with Vice may be wrought with ease into any Form, and cast in any Mould"
preview | full record— Darrell, William (1651-1721)
Date: 1704
"Now I confess I am of Opinion, that the Mind is so far from being a Rasa Tabula, that it is plentifully furnished with all Ideas of Truth, which are the Seeds and Principles of all Knowledge we have, or ever shall have; that we cannot form any one true Notion, but what is founded in some ...
preview | full record— Sherlock, William (1639/40-1707)
Date: 1705
"What are ye, but a Field, or plot of ground, to be manured and cultivated for God?"
preview | full record— Flavell, John (bap. 1630, d. 1691)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Implant, to ingraft, fix or fasten, in the Mind."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Ingraft, to graft, to let a Graft or young Shoot into the stock of a Tree, to implant, imprint, or fix in the Mind."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Antapodosis, a returning or repaying on the other Side or by turns: In Rhetorick, the Counter-part or latter Clause of a Similitude, answering the former. Thus, As the Soil is improv'd by Tilling, So the Mind is more refin'd, and render'd more sublime by good Discipline"
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)