Date: 1740
"Love, Thy image love, impart, / Stamp it on our face and heart"
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Date: 1740
"Be I, O Thou my better part, / A seal impress'd upon Thy heart:"
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Date: 1740
"To pleasures vain he steel'd his heart; / No room for them when God is there"
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Date: 1741
"He supposed that a philosopher's brain was like a great forest, where ideas ranged like animals of several kinds; that those ideas copulated and engendered conclusions; that when those different species copulate, they bring forth monsters and absurdities; that the major is the male, the minor th...
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Date: 1741
In the mind's great forest wander syllogisms: "Universal propositions are persons of quality; and therefore in logic they are said to be of the first figure. Singular propositions are private persons, and therefore placed in the third or last figure, or rank."
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Date: 1741
"But under this macerated form was concealed a mind replete with science, burning with a zeal of benefiting his fellow-creatures, and filled with an honest conscious pride, mixed with a scorn of doing or suffering the least thing beneath the dignity of a philosopher."
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Date: 1741
"'Passion,' continued the doctor, still holding the dish, 'throws the mind into too violent a fermentation; it is a kind of fever of the soul or, as Horace expresses it, a short madness'
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Date: 1741
"Crambe used to value himself upon this system, from whence he said one might see the propriety of the expression, 'such a one has a barren imagination;' and how common it is for such people to adopt conclusions that are not the issue of their premisses."
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Date: 1741
"Cornelius, it is certain, had a most superstitious veneration for the ancients; and if they contradicted each other, his reason was so pliant and ductile that he was always of the opinion of the last he read."
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Date: 1741
"But being weary of all practice on fetid bodies, from a certain niceness of constitution (especially when he attended Dr. Woodward through a twelve-months' course of vomition) he determined to leave it off entirely, and to apply himself only to diseases of the mind."
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