Date: (March 2, 1692/3); 1708
"I have but one Child in the World, who is now nigh four Years old, and promises well; his Mother left him to me very young, and my Affections (I must confess) are strongly placed on him. It has pleased God, by the liberal Provisions of our Ancestors, to free me from the toiling Cares of providin...
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
Date: December 20, 1692; 1708
"I'm much concerned to hear you have your Health no better and, on this Occasion, cannot but deplore the great Losses the intellectual World, in all Ages, has suffer'd by, the strongest and soundest Minds possessing the most infirm and sickly Bodies. Certainly there must be some very powerful Cau...
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
Date: September 6, 1695; 1708
"To be reveng'd on you therefore for putting my Brains into such a Ferment, I have resolved to be so impertinent as to send you the Result of my Meditations upon the Subject."
preview | full record— Synge, Edward (1659-1741)
Date: 1709
Ideas may be "immediately imprinted on the mind"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: Thursday, May 5, to Saturday, May 7, 1709
"Such images as these give us a new pleasure in our sight, and fix upon our minds traces of reflection, which accompany us whenever the like objects occur."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Saturday, May 7, to Tuesday, May 10, 1709
"When we first take our place about a man, the receptacles of the pericranium are immediately searched. In his, I found no one ordinary trace of thinking; but strong passion, violent desires, and a continued series of different changes, had torn it to pieces."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Saturday, June 4, to Tuesday, June 7, 1709
"This rivets you into his heart; for you at once applaud his wisdom, and gratify his inclination."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Saturday, June 11, to Tuesday, June 14, 1709
"But to probe the heart of a man in this particular to its utmost thoughts and recesses, I must wait for the return of Pacolet, who is now attending a gentleman lately in a duel, and sometimes visits the person by whose hand he received his wounds."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: From Saturd. Dec. 24. to Tuesd. Dec. 27. 1709
"Besides that, the Slackening and Unbending our Minds on some Occasions, makes them exert themselves with greater Vigour and Alacrity, when they return to their proper and natural State."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1710, 1734
"It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)