Date: 1765
"Do thou O Tablet, either both, or nothing; either let thy words and sense go together, or be thy bosom a rasa tabula."
preview | full record— Warburton, William (1698-1779)
Date: 1766
"I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that the lessons of wisdom have never such a power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be ...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: January 2, 1769
"Every seminary of learning may be said to be surrounded with an atmosphere of floating knowledge, where every mind may gather somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: 1771
"As the Wax would not be adequate to its business of Signature, had it not a Power to retain, as well as to receive; the same holds of the SOUL, with respect to Sense and Imagination."
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)
Date: 1771
"He thinks nothing more absurd than the common notion of Instruction, as if Science were to be poured into the Mind, like water into a cistern, that passively waits to receive all that comes."
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)
Date: 1771
"The growth of knowledge" resembles "the growth of fruit," as it is "the internal vigour, and virtue of the tree that must ripen the juices to their just maturity"
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)
Date: 1771
Speaking one's mind is "a publishing of some Energie or Motion" of the soul
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)
Date: 1771
"Lastly the road, which leads to Memory through a series of Ideas, however connected whether rationally or casually, this is RECOLLECTION."
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)
Date: 1771
"When we contemplate a Portrait, without thinking of whom it is the Portrait, such Contemplation is analogous to PHANSY. When we view it with reference to the Original, whom it represents, such Contemplation is analogous to MEMORY"
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)
Date: 1771
"Now as our Feet in vain venture to walk upon the River, till the Frost bind the Current, and harden the yielding Surface; so does the SOUL in vain seek to exert its higher Powers, the Powers I mean of REASON and INTELLECT, till IMAGINATION first fix the fluency of SENSE, and thus provide ...
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)