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Date: 1728
"Is not such a rational Benevolence more agreeable to rational Natures, and more meritorious than a blind Instinct that we have in common with inferior Creatures, and which operates, as it were, mechanically, both on their Minds and ours?"
preview | full record— Balguy, John (1686-1748)
Date: 1726, 1729
"Let us Instance in a Watch--Suppose the several Parts of it taken to Pieces, and placed apart from each other: Let a Man have ever so exact a Notion of these several Parts, unless he considers the Respects and Relations which they have to each other, he will not have any thing like the Idea of a...
preview | full record— Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)
Date: 1731
"And therefore, as he observeth out of Aristotle, 'as it is absurd to say the Soul Weaves,' (or indeed the Body either, Weaving being a mixt Action of the Man and Weaving Instruments) so it is absurd to say that the Soul alone doth Covet, Grieve or Perceive: these things proceeding from the Compo...
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1734
"We see and feel these limbs, and this flesh of ours; we are acquainted at least with the outside of this animal machine, and sometimes call it ourselves, though philosophy and reason would rather say, it is our house or tabernacle, because we possess it, or dwell in it: it is our en...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1733-4
"What if the head, the eye or ear repin'd / To serve mere engines to the ruling Mind?"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; / Reason's comparing balance rules the whole."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1743
"Though grey our heads, our thoughts and aims are green; / Like damaged clocks, whose hand and bell dissent; / Folly sings six, while Nature points at twelve."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"That thought is the machine, / The grand machine that heaves us from the dust, / And rears us into men!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Passion's fierce illapse / Rouzes the mind's whole fabric; with supplies / Of daily impulse keeps the elastic powers / Intensely poiz'd, and polishes anew / By that collision all the fine machine: / Else rust would rise, and foulness, by degrees / Incumbering, choak at last what heaven design'd ...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"There is, I grant, a triumph of the pulse, / A dance of spirits, a mere froth of joy, / Our thoughtless Agitation's idle child, / That mantles high, that sparkles, and expires, / Leaving the soul more vapid than before; / An animal ovation! such as holds / No commerce with our reason, but subsis...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
