Date: 1791
The mind may be oppress'd with "weight of care"
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Date: 1791
The mind may feel "Terrour and consternation"
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Date: 1791
One may be as graceful in port and noble in stature as one is in mind discrete
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Date: 1791
"But a convert from Popery to Protestantism, gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as any thing that he retains; there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting"
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Date: 1791
"He [Johnson] entered upon a curious discussion of the difference between intuition and sagacity; one being immediate in its effect, the other requiring a circuitous process; one he observed was the eye of the mind, the other the nose of the mind."
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Date: 1791
"A young gentleman present took up the argument against him, and maintained that no man ever thinks of the nose of the mind, not adverting that though that figurative sense seems strange to us, as very unusual, it is truly not more forced than Hamlet's 'In my mind's eye, Horatio.'"
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Date: 1791
"The analogy between body and mind is very general, and the parallel will hold as to their food, as well as any other particular."
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Date: 1791
"That his own diseased imagination should have so far deceived him, is strange; but it is stranger still that some of his friends should have given credit to his groundless opinion, when they had such undoubted proofs that it was totally fallacious; though it is by no means surprising that those ...
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Date: 1791
"It seems as if his mind had ceased to struggle with the disease; for he grows fat upon it."
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