Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"How doth Reason exert it self by little and little, what Helps and Arts are there us'd to make the Flower open and shew it self to the World?"
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)
Date: January 1739
"The identity, which we ascribe to the mind of man, is only a fictitious one, and of a like kind with that which we ascribe to vegetables and animal bodies."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1751
"This sentiment, rooted in the mind, is an antidote to all misfortune."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1757
"Their root strikes deeper into the mind, and springs from the essential and universal properties of human nature."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)