Date: 1785
"Modern Philosophers, as well as the Peripatetics and Epicureans of old, have conceived, that external objects cannot be the immediate objects of our thought; that there must be some image of them in the mind itself, in which, as in a mirror, they are seen."
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Date: 1785
"Language is the express image and picture of human thoughts; and, from the picture, we may often draw very certain conclusions with regard to the original."
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Date: 1785
"To this it is owing, that, in ancient languages, the word which denotes the soul, is that which properly signifies breath or air."
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Date: 1785
"He conjectured, that the soul is seated in a small gland in the brain, called the pineal gland: That there, as in her chamber of presence, she receives intelligence of every thing that affects the senses, by means of a subtile fluid contained in the nerves, called the animal spirits; and that sh...
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Date: 1785
"When we imagine any thing, the very word leads us to think that these must be some image in the mind of the thing conceived."
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Date: 1785
"The contrary motives are here compared to the weights in the opposite scales of a balance; and there is not perhaps any instance that can be named of a more striking analogy between body and mind."
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Date: 1785
"I say, when we consider such extravagancies of many of the most acute writers on this subject, we may be apt to think the whole to be only a dream of fanciful men, who have entangled themselves in cobwebs spun out of their own brain."
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Date: 1786
"The stamp of artless piety impress'd / By kind tuition on his yielding breast"
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Date: 1786
Vile example may be stamped on the breast
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