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Date: 1755

God himself is the soul's eternal food

— Davies [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"When she rates things, and moves from ground to ground, / The name of reason she obtains by this; / But when reason she the truth has found, / And standeth fixed, she understanding is."

— Davies [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"But since the brain doth lodge the pow'rs of sense, / How makes it in the heart those passions spring?"

— Davies [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.