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Date: 1745

"The wounds of the conscience, like those of the body, cannot be well cured till they are searched to the bottom; and they cannot be searched without pain."

— Mason, John (1706-1763)

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Date: 1745

"Why should you study to conceal or excuse it, and fondly cherish that viper in your bosom?"

— Mason, John (1706-1763)

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Date: 1755

"What Heart of Steel shall dare t'oppose / And league among his hard'ned Foes?"

— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)

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Date: 1755

"'In glad Submission bow ye down, / ' Nor steel that stubborn Heart."

— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)

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Date: 1757

"Another tells how "melts his heart, 'Like wax'"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1757

"His thoughts as silver flow"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1757

"Not sure where found the noble mind: / From vulgar dross and dregs refin'd: / High polish'd--and obdure!"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1757

"But has not Hatred found a part, / Deep lodg'd the cavern of thy Heart, / Or started from thine eyes?"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)

"The power which the mind evidently has of moving the various parts of the body by nerves inserted in the muscles is truly wonderful, seeing the mind neither knows the muscles to be moved, nor the machinery, by which the motion in it is to be produced: so that it is as if a musician should always...

— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)

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Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)

"When the senses are gently and naturally shut up, and the command over the body intermitted, as in sleep, if we think at all we are said to dream; and generally wander through airy tracks of thought, which have no agreement with each other, nor are at all corrected by the judgment."

— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)

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