Date: 1768
"The deep Philsopher who turns mankind / Quite inside outwards, and dissects the mind, / Wou'd look but whimsical and strangely out, / To grudge some Quack his treatise on the gout."
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Date: 1769
Cares may "torment my tortur'd mind, / Leaving their rugged tracts behind"
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1771, 1776
"'Fancy enervates, while it sooths, the heart, / 'And, while it dazzles, wounds the mental sight: / 'To joy each heightening charm it can impart, / 'But wraps the hour of wo in tenfold night."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1771, 1776
"And Reason now through Number, Time, and Space, / 'Darts the keen lustre of her serious eye, / 'And learns, from facts compared, the laws to trace, / 'Whose long progression leads to Deity."
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Date: 1773
"Besides these, there were certain evenings appropriated to exercises of the mind."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"The punctilio's indeed on which he depends, for his own peace, and the peace of society, are so ridiculous in the eye of reason, that it is not a little surprising, how so many millions of reasonable beings should have sanctified them with their mutual consent and acquiescence; that they should ...
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1774
"It is imagination that produces genius; the other intellectual faculties lend their assistance to rear the offspring of imagination to maturity."
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)
Date: 1774
"No sooner does the imagination, in a moment of wandering, suggest any idea not conducive to the design, than the conception of this design breaks in of its own accord, and, like an antagonist muscle, counteracting the other association, draws us off to the view of a more proper idea."
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)
Date: 1774
"Imagination must set all the ideas and all the analogies of things, which it collects, before the discerning eye of reason, and submit them absolutely to its sovereign decision."
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)