Date: September 6, 1695; 1708
"Mr. Molyneux's ingenious Question, of which you gave me an Account at Mr. Lukey's Yesterday, has run so much in my Mind ever since, that I could scarce drive it out of my Thoughts."
preview | full record— Synge, Edward (1659-1741)
Date: From Tuesd. Sept. 13. to Thursd. Sept. 15. 1709
"I have often reflected, that there is a great Similitude in the Motions of the Heart in Mirth and in Sorrow; and I think the usual Occasion of the latter, as well as the former, is something which is sudden and unexpected."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: From Thursd. Nov. 24 to Saturd. Nov. 26. 1709
"I Have been this Evening recollecting what Passages (since I could first think) have left the strongest Impressions upon my Mind; and after strict Enquiry, I am convinced, that the Impulses I have received from Theatrical Representations, have had a greater Effect, than otherwise would have been...
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1710, 1734
"For example, the will is termed the motion of the soul: this infuses a belief, that the mind of man is as a ball in motion, impelled and determined by the objects of sense, as necessarily as that is by the stroke of a racket."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: From Tuesday May 30. to Thursday June 1. 1710
"In a Word, the Beauties and the Charms of Nature and of Art court all my Faculties, refresh the Fibres of the Brain, and smooth every Avenue of Thought. What pleasing Meditations, what agreeable Wanderings of the Mind, and what delicious Slumbers, have I enjoyed here?"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Thursday, March 22, 1711
"At such a time the Mind of the Prosperous Man goes, as it were, abroad, among things without him, and is more exposed to the Malignity."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Monday, April 28, 1712
"From hence my Thoughts took Occasion to ramble into the general Notion of Travelling, as it is now made a Part of Education."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Monday, April 28, 1712
"This must certainly be a most charming Exercise to the Mind that is rightly turned for it."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1713, 1734
"And although it may, perhaps, seem an uneasy reflexion to some, that when they have taken a circuit through so many refined and unvulgar notions, they should at last come to think like other men: yet, methinks, this return to the simple dictates of Nature, after having wandered through the wild ...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713
"Your soul (continued he) being at liberty to transport herself with a thought wherever she pleases, may enter into the Pineal Gland of the most learned philosopher, and, being so placed, become spectator of all the ideas in his mind, which would instruct her in a much less time than the usual me...
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