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Date: 1630
"The apostle tells us that this love is the fulfilling of the law, not that it is enough to love our brother and so no further; but in regard of the excellency of his parts giving any motion to the other as the soul to the body and the power it hath to set all the faculties at work in the outward...
preview | full record— Winthrop, John (1588–1649)
Date: 1630
"Now when the soul, which is of a sociable nature, finds anything like to itself, it is like Adam when Eve was brought to him."
preview | full record— Winthrop, John (1588–1649)
Date: 1630
"She hath a great propensity to do it good and receives such content in it, as fearing the miscarriage of her beloved she bestows it in the inmost closet of her heart."
preview | full record— Winthrop, John (1588–1649)
Date: 1704
"Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, / Softens the high, and rears the abject Mind; / Knows with just Reins, and gentle Hand to guide, / Betwixt vile Shame, and arbitrary Pride."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1704
"As thro' the Artist's intervening Glass, / Our Eye observes the distant Planets pass; / A little we discover; but allow, / That more remains unseen, than Art can show: / So whilst our Mind it's Knowledge wou'd improve; / (It's feeble Eye intent on Things above) / High as We may, We lift our Rea...
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1723, 1732
"From whence we may learn that to perform a meritorious Action, it is not sufficient barely to conquer a Passion, unless it likewise be done from a laudable Principle, and consequently how necessary that Clause was in the Definition of Virtue, that our Endeavours were to proceed from a ratio...
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1734, 1735
"Their dire Effects the Wretched feel: / Thy Waters turn the Heart to Steel."
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: December, 1763; 1774
Bigotry "Wouldst pluck down Reason from her throne / to raise some fantom"
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: December, 1763; 1774
"Tho' Prejudice in narrow minds, / The mental eye of reason blinds."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: December, 1763; 1774
"'Tis Conscience, a reward alone, / Conscience, who plac'd on Virtue's throne, / Eyes raging men, or raging seas, / Undaunted, firm, with heart at ease."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
