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Date: 1704

"Wherefore consecrate the first Fruits of Reason to God; you can't begin the Practice of Piety too soon, but may be too late; Nature untainted with Vice may be wrought with ease into any Form, and cast in any Mould"

— Darrell, William (1651-1721)

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Date: 1704

"Now I confess I am of Opinion, that the Mind is so far from being a Rasa Tabula, that it is plentifully furnished with all Ideas of Truth, which are the Seeds and Principles of all Knowledge we have, or ever shall have; that we cannot form any one true Notion, but what is founded in some ...

— Sherlock, William (1639/40-1707)

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Date: 1705

"What are ye, but a Field, or plot of ground, to be manured and cultivated for God?"

— Flavell, John (bap. 1630, d. 1691)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Implant, to ingraft, fix or fasten, in the Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Ingraft, to graft, to let a Graft or young Shoot into the stock of a Tree, to implant, imprint, or fix in the Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Antapodosis, a returning or repaying on the other Side or by turns: In Rhetorick, the Counter-part or latter Clause of a Similitude, answering the former. Thus, As the Soil is improv'd by Tilling, So the Mind is more refin'd, and render'd more sublime by good Discipline"

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Plantal, causing to sprout forth, or grow; as in The Plantal Faculties of the Soul. "

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1708, 1714

"But the knowledg of our Passions in their very Seeds, the measuring well the Growth and Progress of Enthusiasm, and the judging rightly of its natural Force, and what command it has over our very Senses, may teach us to oppose more successfully those Delusions which come arm'd with the specious ...

— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)

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Date: 1709

An "early prejudice" may have "implanted in the mind" a "false persuasion"

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

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Date: 1709

A "false persuasion" "implanted in the mind" by prejudice may be rooted out

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

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