Date: 101
"But if you consider what is proper for a man, examine your store-house, see with what faculties you came into the world."
preview | full record— Epictetus (c. 55-c.135)
Date: 1273
"But for the retention and preservation of these forms, the 'phantasy' or 'imagination' is appointed; which are the same, for phantasy or imagination is as it were a storehouse of forms received through the senses."
preview | full record— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Date: 1273
"Furthermore, for the apprehension of intentions which are not received through the senses, the 'estimative' power is appointed: and for the preservation thereof, the 'memorative' power, which is a storehouse of such-like intentions."
preview | full record— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Date: 1273
"On the contrary, From its nature the memory is the treasury or storehouse of species."
preview | full record— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Date: 1641
"Now admittedly, it is not necessary that I ever light upon any thought of God; but whenever I do choose to think of the first and supreme being, and bring forth the idea of God from the treasure house of my mind as it were, it is necessary that I attribute all perfections to him, even if I do no...
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: March 24, 1659
"[Oliver Cromwell's] body was well compact and strong, his stature under 6 foot (I believe about two inches), his head so shaped as you might see it a storehouse and shop both of a vast treasury of natural parts."
preview | full record— Maidston, John
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"First crept / The parsimonious emmet, provident / Of future; in small room large heart enclosed"
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1680
"And nothing to the Soul can come, / Till th' ushering Senses make it room."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
Date: 1683
"Invention, Memory, and Wit, should stay; / And all their Treasures in this Turrit lay."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"For certain 'tis that Memory in Youth is infinitely more ready than in men of riper years, as appears from their different capacitys in learning of a Language; and then for Invention which always builds out of the Store-house of Memory, 'tis then most perfect and various when the Spirits are mos...
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)