Date: 1785
"He that attends to his interior self, [...] Has business; feels himself engaged to achieve / No unimportant, though a silent task."
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Date: 1785
"The analogy between memory and a repository, and between remembering and retaining, is obvious and is to be found in all languages."
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Date: 1785
The "eyesight of discovery" may be blinded by constraints
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Date: 1785
"I tread his deck, / Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes / Discover countries, with a kindred heart / Suffer his woes and share in his escapes, / While fancy, like the finger of a clock, / Runs the great circuit, and is still at home."
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Date: 1785
"In later ages, Des Cartes was the first that pointed out the road we ought to take in those dark regions [of the mind]."
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Date: 1785
"Thus colour must be in something coloured; figure in something figured; thought can only be in something that thinks; wisdom and virtue cannot exist but in some being that is wise and virtuous."
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Date: 1785
"When we come to be instructed by Philosophers, we must bring the old light of common sense along with us, and by it judge of the new light which the Philosopher communicates to us."
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Date: 1785
"And in his [God's] ideas, as in a mirror, we perceive whatever we do perceive of the external world."
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Date: 1785
"Aristotle taught, that all the objects of our thought enter at first by the senses; and, since the sense cannot receive external material objects themselves, it receives their species; that is, their images or forms, without the matter; as wax receives the form of the seal without any of the mat...
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Date: 1785
"They held, that all bodies continually send forth slender films or spectres from their surface, of such extreme subtilty, that they easily penetrate our gross bodies, or enter by the organs of sense, and stamp their image upon the mind."
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