Date: 1776
"Whatever regards the analysis of the operations of the mind, which is quicker than lightning in all her energies, must in a great measure be abstruse and dark."
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Date: 1783
The human body is like a barometer: "If the external air can affect the motions of so heavy a substance as mercury, in the tube of the barometer; we need no wonder, that it should affect those finer fluids, that circulate through the human body."
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Date: 1783
"The utmost we can expect is, that this fire of imagination should sometimes flash upon us like lightning from heaven, and then disappear."
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