Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)
"Memory in a great measure depends upon the body, and is often much injured by a disease, and afterwards recovered with recovering strength, which on the Cartesian hypothesis is accounted for, by supposing that those parts of the brain, on which these characters are written, are by such disorders...
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)
"Children soon forget, as they soon learn: old people learn with difficulty, and remember best what they learnt when young. That is, say the Cartesians because the brain growing by degrees more dry retains old characters, but does not easily admit new."
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1763
"Explore the dark recesses of the mind, / In the Soul's honest volume read mankind, / And own, in wise and simple, great and small, / The same grand leading Principle in All."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"No--'tis the tale which angry Conscience tells, / When She with more than tragic horror swells / Each circumstance of guilt; when stern, but true, / She brings bad actions forth into review; / And, like the dread hand-writing on the wall, / Bids late Remorse awake at Reason's call, / Arm'd at al...
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
"Thus every good his native wilds impart / Imprints the patriot passion on his heart, / And even those ills, that round his mansion rise, / Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"Manfred, who, though he had distinguished her by great indulgence, had imprinted her mind with terror from his causeless rigour to such amiable princesses as Hippolita and Matilda."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"There is not a sentiment engraven on my heart, that does not venerate you and yours."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1765
"That fruit thy covenant may yield, / Which is upon my forehead seal'd, / And on my heart ingraft."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
One might say "that there are truths engraved in the soul which it has never known, and even ones which it will never know"
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1765
"If all [the mind] had was the mere capacity to receive those items of knowledge--a passive power to do so, as indeterminate as the power of wax to receive shapes or of a blank page to receive words--it would not be the source of necessary truths"
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)