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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Dazzle, to hurt the Sight, with too muc Light, to surprize the Mind; to tempt, to decoy, to beguile."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Elate, (Lat.) puffed up, transported, lofty, proud, haughty; as A Man of an Elate Mind. "
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Imprint, to Engrave, or fix a thing in one's Mind."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Instill, to pour in by little and little, to let fall drop by drop; in a figurative Sense to infuse Principles or Notions, so that the may glide insensibly into the Mind."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Longanimity, (Lat. q.d. Length of Mind) Longsuffering, great Patices, or Forbearance. "
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Luciferous, that brings Light: as Luciferous Experiments, a Term us'd by Naturlaists, for such Experiments as serve to inform and inlighten the Mind, about some Truth of Speculation in Physick or Philosophy."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Plantal, causing to sprout forth, or grow; as in The Plantal Faculties of the Soul. "
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706
"Matters that are recommended to our thoughts by any of our passions take possession of our minds with a kind of authority, and will not be kept out or dislodged, but, as if the passion that rules were, for the time, the sheriff of the place, and came with all the posse, the understanding is seiz...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1706
"There is scarce any body, I think, of so calm a temper who hath not sometime found this tyranny on his understanding, and suffered under the inconvenience of it."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1706
"Who is there almost whose mind, at some time or other, love or anger, fear or grief, has not so fastened to some clog, that it could not turn itself to any other object? I call it a clog, for it hangs upon the mind so as to hinder its vigour and activity in the pursuit of other contemplations, a...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
