Date: 1727
"We rather take Notice of this here; Because this Philosophy had made the Mind a Rasa Tabula, or a Blank Paper, or an Empty and Void Room without any Furniture, which therefore it was to Supply; And this is done by Storing it with it's Simple Ideas from Sensation and Reflection, and from thence D...
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Date: 1727
Artificial Memory "Consisted in making Choice of a Certain Number of Loci, or Places, which were Distinguished from each Other by their Order, of First, Second, &c. by Various Spaces, Figures, and Intervals, and by Certain Marks and Characters, where were Affixed to every Fifth, or Tenth p...
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Date: 1727
"Thus when the villain crams his chest, / Gold is the canker of the breast"
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Date: 1728
"I must have Women. There is nothing unbends the Mind like them."
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Date: 1728
"If Love the Virgin's Heart invade, / How, like a Moth, the simple Maid / Still plays about the Flame!"
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Date: 1728
"Though my Heart were as frozen as Ice, / At his Flame 'twould have melted away."
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Date: 1728
"My Heart was so free, / It rov'd like the Bee, / 'Till Polly my Passion requited."
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Date: 1729
"To Coin, like Man, a little Ape, / 'Gainst Heaven is High-Treason"
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Date: 1734
"While Gold will make their Minds to bow, / As Fire doe's green Wood, any how."
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Date: 1735, 1745
"Mean while, What think'st thou? Was the human Soul, / Which by a transient Glance from Pole to Pole / Travels more swift than Light, to Heav'n sublime / Can fly, descend to Hell, six fleeting Time, / The Past and Future to the Present join, / And knows no Bounds which can Its Range confine,...
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