Date: 1698
"This sort of Musick warms the Passions, and unlocks the Fancy, and makes it open to Pleasure like a Flower to the Sun."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"Now why should it be in the power of a few mercenary Hands to play People out of their Senses, to run away with their Understandings, and wind their Passions about their Fingers as they list?"
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"People love to see their Passions painted no less than their Persons: And like Narcissus are apt to dote on their own Image."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"Love has generally a Party Within; And when the Wax is prepared, the Impression is easily made."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"The Passions are up in Arms, and there's a mighty Contest between Duty, and Inclination. The Mind is over-run with Amusements, and commonly good for nothing sometime after."
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Date: 1698
"The Seat of Sense is the Brain, whose Nervous Dispensations are the Intermediate Bodies between it and the Organs, on which the External Objects act."
preview | full record— Cowper [Cooper], William (1666/7-1710)
Date: 1698
"When the Impression is made by the Object, and receiv'd into the Organ of Sense, it is convey'd from thence with the same Type or Character, by an Agitation of its Nervous Expansions and their continued Trunks, to the common Sensory."
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Date: 1699
"We do plainly perceive that our Bodies are clogs to our Minds: And all the use that even the purest sort of Body in an Estate conceived to be glorified, can be of to a Mind, is to be an Instrument of local Motion, or to be a repository of Ideas for Memory and Imagination."
preview | full record— Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715)
Date: 1699
"A Mind dwelling in a Body, is in many respects superior to it; yet in some respects is under it."
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Date: 1699
"And after they are come to their full growth, they cannot hold in that condition long, but sink down much faster than they grew up; some Humours or Diseases discomposing the Brain, which is the Seat of the Mind so entirely, that it cannot serve it, at least so far as to Reflex Acts."
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