Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Instill, to pour in by little and little, to let fall drop by drop; in a figurative Sense to infuse Principles or Notions, so that the may glide insensibly into the Mind."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Longanimity, (Lat. q.d. Length of Mind) Longsuffering, great Patices, or Forbearance. "
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Luciferous, that brings Light: as Luciferous Experiments, a Term us'd by Naturlaists, for such Experiments as serve to inform and inlighten the Mind, about some Truth of Speculation in Physick or Philosophy."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Plantal, causing to sprout forth, or grow; as in The Plantal Faculties of the Soul. "
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Tyrannize, to play the Tyrant, or use tyrannically; to oppress, or lord it over. The Passions are Figuratively said To Tyrannize over the Soul. "
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Volition, (in Philos.) the Act of Willing, an Act of the Mind when it knowingly exercises that Dominion it takes to it self over any Part of the Man, by employing such a Faculty in, or withholding it from any particular Action."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Retain, to keep, or hold back a thing once deliver'd and afterwards demanded again; to preserve such good or bad Qualities as one had formerly; to keep in Mind, or to remember."
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Date: Monday, May 25, 1724
"The Mind of Will. Weathercock is like the Sail of a great Ship, that has Room, to contain much Wind; but, having none, of its own producing, is swell'd out, by Turns, from all the Quarters of the Compass."
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Date: 1731
"And therefore it [the soul] is not present with it only as a Mariner with a Ship, that is, meerly Locally, or knowingly and unpassionately present, they still continuing two distinct Things; but it is vitally united to it, and passionately present with it. And therefore when the Body is hurt, th...
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Date: 1738
A person may be called the same person by "a continual Superaddition of the like Consciousness ... Just as a Ship is called the same Ship, after the whole Substance is changed by frequent Repairs; or a River is called the same River, though the Water of it be every Day new."
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