"Can there be Strength of Mind; can there be Command over one's self; if the Ideas of Pleasure, the Suggestions of Fancy, and the strong Pleadings of Appetite and Desire are not often withstood, and the Imaginations soundly reprimanded, and brought under Subjection?"
Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author  [collected in Characteristics]
A complicated publication history. At least 10 entries in ESTC (1710, 1711, 1714, 1733, 1744, 1751, 1757, 1758, 1773, 1790).<br>
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See <u>Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author</u> (London: John Morphew, 1710). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T92975">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-PEQAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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See also "Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author" in <u>Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes.</u> (London: John Darby, 1711). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T30440">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Some text drawn from ECCO and Google Books; also from Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. <u>Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times</u>, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: CUP, 2001). Klein's text is based on the British Library's copy of the second edition of 1714. [Texts to be collated.]