Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"That he might, for his own dear sake, become a Partaker, a Partner in them; and then, thought I, when we can Hand in Hand, Heart in Heart, one Spirit, as well as one Flesh, join in the same Closet, in the same Prayers and Thanksgivings, what an happy Creature shall I be!"
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Date: 1741
"'Passion,' continued the doctor, still holding the dish, 'throws the mind into too violent a fermentation; it is a kind of fever of the soul or, as Horace expresses it, a short madness'
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (bap. 1677, d. 1735)
Date: 1741
"Crambe used to value himself upon this system, from whence he said one might see the propriety of the expression, 'such a one has a barren imagination;' and how common it is for such people to adopt conclusions that are not the issue of their premisses."
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Date: 1741
"But being weary of all practice on fetid bodies, from a certain niceness of constitution (especially when he attended Dr. Woodward through a twelve-months' course of vomition) he determined to leave it off entirely, and to apply himself only to diseases of the mind."
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Date: 1748
"Cæsar, Pompey, and Alexander the Great are continually in his mouth; and as he reads a good deal without any judgment to digest it, his ideas are confused, and his harrangues as unintelligible as infinite."
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Date: 1747-8
Passion may blind the judgment and help on meditated delusion
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Date: 1747-8
"Will not some serious thoughts mingle with thy melilot, and tear off the callus of thy mind, as that may stay the leather from thy back, and as thy epispastics may strip the parchment from thy plotting head?"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"I can fancy, that to pink my body like my mind, I need only to be put into a hogshead stuck full of steel-pointed spikes, and rolled down a hill three times as high as the Monument."
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Date: 1747-8
"But the over-refinement of Platonic sentiments always sinks into the dross and feces of that Passion"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"If it were only, that I can see this man without losing any of that dignity (what other word can I use, speaking of myself, that betokens decency, and not arrogance?) which is so necessary to enable me to look up, or rather, with the mind's eye, I may say, to l...
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)