Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"She pours out all her Soul in [Soliloquies and little Reasonings] before her Parents without Disguise; so that one may judge of, nay, almost see, the inmost Recesses of her Mind"
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Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"For, as I have heard you, my best Tutor, often observe, the Peculiarities of Habit, where a Person aims at something fantastick, or out of Character, are an undoubted Sign of a wrong Head: For such an one is so kind, as always to hang out on his Sign, what sort of Furniture he has in his Shop, t...
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Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"And yet the Soul, shut up in her dark Room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing"
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Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"I see your sweet Eyes begin to glisten:---- O how this Subject raises your whole Soul to the Windows of it!"
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Date: 1741
"In this design of Martin to investigate the diseases of the mind, he thought nothing so necessary as an enquiry after the seat of the soul; in which at first he laboured under great uncertainties."
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Date: 1741
"The brain was [the soul's] study, the heart her state room and the stomach her kitchen."
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Date: 1741
"He suppos'd that in factious and restless-spirited people he should find it sharp and pointed, allowing no room for the Soul to repose herself; that in quiet Tempers it was flat, smooth, and soft, affording the Soul as it were an easy cushion."
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