Date: 1716
"We are gratify'd to see an unexpected Idea presented to our Understanding, and wonder at the beautiful Conjunction of Notions so separate and remote before; and whatever is marvellous is delightful too; as we always feel a Pleasure at the sight of Foreigners and their Garments, so the Mind rejoi...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1716
"If midst of Thoughts that crowd into thy Mind, / The Care of absent Friends a Place can find, / Retire a while from Warlike Noise and Throng / Into thy inmost Tent, and listen to my Song."
preview | full record— Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?-1715)
Date: 1716
"Conscience only, that can see without Light, sits in the Areopagy and dark Tribunal of our Hearts, surveying our Thoughts and condemning their obliquities."
preview | full record— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)
Date: 1716
"To say that souls are intelligent points is to use an expression that is insufficiently exact. When I call them centers of concentrations of external things, I am speaking analogically."
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1716
"My ravish'd Heart strait like a Bird of Prey / Stoop'd at the Lure; And thus my early Youth / Was by vain Thoughts bewildred and mis-led."
preview | full record— Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?-1715)
Date: 1716
"You think, perhaps, his dull Capacity, / In flight of Reason, cannot soar so high, / As to confirm him in his Sophistry."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1716
"Led on by Reason, that blind Guide o'th'Mind. / Thro Labyrinths of Thought, and envious Ways, / It will conduct you to the fatal Place, / And leave you there."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1716
"O then, from such Idolatry refrain, To worship the Chimeras of your Brain."
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Date: 1716
"As by Rebellion Subjects oft become / Lords of their Monarch, and pronounce his Doom: / So Reason, to your wicked Nature join'd, / Rebels 'gainst Faith, whose Slave it was design'd."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1716
One's head may be "perpetually confounded with the Fumes of Ale and Faction"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)