Date: 1720
"A Thousand Transports crowd his Breast."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: January, 1719; 1720
"Still heavy, at the last my Nose / I prim'd with an inspiring Dose, / Then did the Ideas dance, (dear safe us!) / As they'd been daft."
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Date: 1725
"What silly Notions crowd the clouded Mind, / That is thro' want of Education blind!"
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Date: 1734
"Reason then must fall into the grossest Mistakes, when it meddles in things beyond its Line, or out of its Sphere: in this case 'tis like an incompetent Judge, and the Conclusions must be absurd."
preview | full record— Forbes of Pitsligo, Alexander Forbes, Lord (1678-1762)
Date: 1734
"'Tis generally in favour of the Senses that the Passions are exerted; these are alarm'd and rise in arms, when our Pleasures are in danger."
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Date: 1734
"And if it be said that the Understanding, which is but passive it self, like the bodily Eye, cannot be called the Leader of the rest of the Faculties; it must be granted, that (strictly speaking) it is rather the Light than the Guide: for if we consider it in the three Operations mention'd by th...
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Date: 1734
"Shall we say then, that there is a first Mover within us, a Mind, Rector, or presiding Faculty over the rest?"
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