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"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1748, 1777
"It [the imagination] can feign a train of events, with all the appearance of reality, ascribe to them a particular time and place, conceive them as existent, and paint them out to itself with every circumstance, that belongs to any historical fact, which it believes with the greatest certainty."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1748, 1777
"This impression of my senses immediately conveys my thought to the person, together with all the surrounding objects. I paint them out to myself as existing at present, with the same qualities and relations, of which I formerly knew them possessed."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)