1704

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God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them.

Isaac Newton

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

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Topic

Atomism Creation of the world God and creation

Author

Isaac Newton

Source

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1704 1700s 18th century

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1704, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. Opticks. Dover Publications, 2012, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.

Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain: and whence arises all that Order and Beauty which we see in the World?... does it not appear from Phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly.

Isaac Newton

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

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Topic

God and nature Nature

Author

Isaac Newton

Source

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1704 1700s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1704, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 28.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. Opticks. Dover Publications, 2012, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 28.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Jonathan Swift

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Topic

Satire Judging others Self-criticism

Author

Jonathan Swift

Source

The Battle of the Books

Genre

Satire

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1704 1700s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Swift, Jonathan. The Battle of the Books. London: John Nutt, 1704, preface.

Current Citation

Swift, Jonathan. "The Preface of the Author." A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works. Dover Publications, 1996.

They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Courtship and dating Marriage

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

The Wife of Bath, Her Prologue

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1704 1700s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "The Wife of Bath, Her Prologue. From Chaucer." c. 1704?

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "The Wife from Bath from Chaucer." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009.

The great design of art is to restore the decays that happened to human nature by the fall, by restoring order.

John Dennis

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Topic

Purpose of art Art

Author

John Dennis

Source

The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1704 1700s 18th century

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Citation

Dennis, John. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry. London: Geo. Strahan and Bernard Lintott, 1704, ch. 2.