"And my Reader will be pleas'd to observe, That whatever agreeable Perceptions we have form thence, they must all necessarily expire with the Body, unless the Author of Nature immediatly interpose and appoint new Regulations; for in the present Constitution of Things, the Human Body is the only Engine whereby those pleasing Ideas are convey'd to us."
— Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)
Place of Publication
Westminster
Publisher
Printed by J. Cluer and A. Campbell
Date
1728 (1733)
Metaphor
"And my Reader will be pleas'd to observe, That whatever agreeable Perceptions we have form thence, they must all necessarily expire with the Body, unless the Author of Nature immediatly interpose and appoint new Regulations; for in the present Constitution of Things, the Human Body is the only Engine whereby those pleasing Ideas are convey'd to us."
Metaphor in Context
[...] And my Reader will be pleas'd to observe, That whatever agreeable Perceptions we have form thence, they must all necessarily expire with the Body, unless the Author of Nature immediatly interpose and appoint new Regulations; for in the present Constitution of Things, the Human Body is the only Engine whereby those pleasing Ideas are convey'd to us.
(p. 185)
(p. 185)
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Google Books
Citation
At least 4 entries in ESTC (1728, 1733, 1734, 1748).
See Arete-Logia or, an Enquiry Into the Original of Moral Virtue; Wherein the False Notions of Machiavel, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Mr. Bayle, As They Are Collected and Digested by the Author of the Fable of the Bees, Are Examin'd and Confuted; ... To Which Is Prefix'd, a Prefatory Introduction, in a Letter to That Author. By Alexander Innes (Westminster: Printed by J. Cluer and A. Campbell, for B. Creake, 1728). <Link to ECCO><Link to Google Books>
Note, the work's publication history is detailed in the ODNB: Campbell wrote the work after reading Mandeville's Fable of the Bees, and in 1726 he entrusted the manuscript to Alexander Innes, who published the work under his own name. In 1730 Campbell asserted his authorship of the Enquiry in the "Advertisement" to his Discourse Proving that the Apostles were no Enthusiasts. In the 1733 republication of the Enquiry, Innes's duplicity was made public.
See Arete-Logia or, an Enquiry Into the Original of Moral Virtue; Wherein the False Notions of Machiavel, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Mr. Bayle, As They Are Collected and Digested by the Author of the Fable of the Bees, Are Examin'd and Confuted; ... To Which Is Prefix'd, a Prefatory Introduction, in a Letter to That Author. By Alexander Innes (Westminster: Printed by J. Cluer and A. Campbell, for B. Creake, 1728). <Link to ECCO><Link to Google Books>
Note, the work's publication history is detailed in the ODNB: Campbell wrote the work after reading Mandeville's Fable of the Bees, and in 1726 he entrusted the manuscript to Alexander Innes, who published the work under his own name. In 1730 Campbell asserted his authorship of the Enquiry in the "Advertisement" to his Discourse Proving that the Apostles were no Enthusiasts. In the 1733 republication of the Enquiry, Innes's duplicity was made public.
Date of Entry
07/16/2013
