Date: 1738
"I can know 'I' did something in the past despite this flux which may involve no residual particles that were part of the original system at the time of an event: Consciousness of having done an Action is an Idea imprinted on the Brain, by recollecting or bringing into View our Ideas before they ...
preview | full record— Collins, Anthony (1676-1729)
Date: 1738
"Consciousness of having done an Action is an Idea imprinted on the Brain."
preview | full record— Collins, Anthony (1676-1729)
Date: 1745
"Drink early then, my Friend, at Reason's Bowl, / And fill with wholesome Draughts thy youthful Soul. / If Wine or Gall the Recent Vessel stains, / Each Scent alike the faithful Cask retains."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1748
Thought is "The lover's heaven, or his hell."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: w. 1740, 1748
"But when your early Care shall have design'd / To plan the Soul and mould the waxen Mind; / When you shall pour upon his tender Breast / Ideas that must stand an Age's Test, / Oh! there imprint with strongest deepest dye / The lovely form of Goddess LIBERTY!"
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1754
"I may with the same Naïvité remove the Veil from my mental as well as personal Imperfections; and expose them naked to the World."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1754
"A deformed Person will naturally consider, where his Strength and his Foible lie; and as he is well acquainted with the last, he will easily find out the first; and must know, that (if it is any where) it is not, like Sampson's, in the Hair; but must be in the Lining of the Head."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1761
"Soft pity may touch the manly Breast, / And on thy soul mild Nature's stamp imprest"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"This bitter taunt galled the soul of Manfred."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1771
"When we contemplate a Portrait, without thinking of whom it is the Portrait, such Contemplation is analogous to PHANSY. When we view it with reference to the Original, whom it represents, such Contemplation is analogous to MEMORY"
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)