Date: 1748, 1777
"They [these impressions] are not only placed in a full light themselves, but may throw light on their correspondent ideas, which lie in obscurity."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1748, 1777
"And by this means, we may, perhaps, attain a new microscope or species of optics, by which, in the moral sciences, the most minute, and most simple ideas may be so enlarged as to fall readily under our apprehension, and be equally known with the grossest and most sensible ideas, that can be the ...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1748, 1777
"The internal principles and motives may operate in a uniform manner, notwithstanding these seeming irregularities; in the same manner as the winds, rain, cloud, and other variations of the weather are supposed to be governed by steady principles; though not easily discoverable by human sagacity ...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1748, 1777
"You afterwards become so enamoured of this offspring of your brain, that you imagine it impossible, but he must produce something greater and more perfect than the present scene of things, which is so full of ill and disorder."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1748, 1777
"If they tell me, that they have mounted on the steps or by the gradual ascent of reason, and by drawing inferences from effects to causes, I still insist, that they have aided the ascent of reason by the wings of imagination; otherwise they could not thus change their manner of inference, and ar...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1747-8
"And that the Whole would be thereby deprived of that Variety, which is deemed the Soul of a Feast, whether mensal or mental."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"If in look, if in speech, a girl waves way to undue levity, depend upon it, the devil has got one of his cloven feet in her heart already."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"To send a man and horse on purpose; as I did! My imagination chained to the belly of the beast, in order to keep pace with him!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: w. c. 1748
"Secondly, Those Characters sink deeper into the Mind of the Reader, and stamp there a perfect Idea of the very Turn of Thought, by which the Originals were actuated, and diversified from each other."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1780?
"Lust is the unbridled Horse of the Soul that has thrown its Rider."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)