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Date: 1756, 1766

Too much gold "gives the passions the commanding influence, and makes reason receive law from appetite"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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Date: 1756, 1766

A passion may be "rebellious and lawless"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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Date: 1756, 1766

"[O]ur gracious and good Father makes now and then some friendly impressions upon our minds, and by representing in several lights the terrors and promises of the gospel, excites our hopes and fears"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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Date: 1756, 1766

"[T]he authority of a Being of infinite wisdom, and unchangeable rectitude of nature, had made such an impression upon their minds, that they laboured continually to acquire that consecration and sanctity of heart and manners, which our divine religion requires."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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Date: 1756, 1766

"[T]he wonderful and grand scene strikes powerfully on my mind, and causes an awful impression. "

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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Date: 1756, 1766

A recipe for sympathetic ink

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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Date: 1756, 1766

"This is beyond the reach of our conception. Imagination cannot plumb her line so low."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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Date: 1756, 1766

"And as to gold's being so yielding and ductile by human art, it is to be observed, that in return it exerts a greater power on the human mind. "

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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Date: 1756, 1766

Too much gold "gives the passions the commanding influence, and makes reason receive law from appetite."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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Date: 1756, 1766

"Whether the learned Dr. Edmund Law, and the great Dr. Sherlock bishop of London, be right, in asserting, the human soul sleeps like a bat or a swallow, in some cavern for a period, till the last trumpet awakens the hero of Voltaire and Henault, I mean Lewis XIV."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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