Date: 1752
The mind may be diseased with a kind of ague fit
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Date: 1752
The mind bears a mental burthen as the body bears a physical one
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"You know, my Dear, how gloomy the Prospect was Yesterday before our Eyes, how inevitable Ruin stared me in the Face; and the dreadful Idea of having entailed Beggary on my Amelia and her Posterity racked my Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"By the latter I shall see whether you can keep a Secret; and if it is no otherwise material, it will be a wholesome Exercise to your Mind; for the Practice of any Virtue is a kind of mental Exercise, and serves to maintain the Health and Vigour of the Soul."
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Date: 1754
"How you wound my soul by the supposition!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1759
"To the mind, as to the eye, it is difficult to compare with exactness objects vast in their extent, and various in their parts."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired."
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Date: 1759
"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude."
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Date: 1794
"[T]he thing in which my imagination revelled the most freely, was the analysis of the private and internal operations of the mind, employing my metaphysical dissecting knife in tracing and laying bare the involutions of motive, and recording the gradually accumulating impulses."
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Date: 1796
"Aided by her youth and healthy constitution, she shook off the malady which her mother's death had occasioned; but it was not so easy to remove the disease of her mind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)