Date: 1779
"Our affections are indeed the medium through which we may be said to survey ourselves, and every thing else; and whatever be our inward frame, we are apt to perceive a wonderful congeniality in the world without us"
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Date: 1782
"Parisian paint of every kind, / That stains the body or the mind, / Proclaims the Harlot's art"
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Date: 1782
Those who wear "The Zone of Venus" "never know / To what enchanting charm they owe / The empire of the heart"
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Date: 1783
"But as his imagination was strong and rich, rather than delicate and correct, he sometimes gives it too loose reins."
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Date: 1783
Epicurus "fancied, that an infinite multitude of subtle images; some flowing from bodies, some formed in the air of their own accord, and others made up of different things variously combined, are always moving up and down around us: and that these images, being of extreme fineness, penetrate our...
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Date: 1783
"Aristotle seems to think, that every object of sense makes, upon the human soul, or upon some part of our frame, a certain impression; which remains for some time after the object that made it is gone; and which, being afterwards recognized by the mind in sleep"
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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
"But it is urged, that in sleep, the soul is passive, and haunted by visions, which she would gladly get rid of if she could"
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Date: 1783
"From reading the most admired productions of genius, whether in poetry or prose, almost every one rises with some good impressions left on his mind; and though these may not always be durable, they are at least to be ranked among the means of disposing the heart to virtue."
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Date: 1783
"There is a certain string, which, being properly struck, the human heart is so made as to answer to it."
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