Date: 1751

"To this end, the Author of our nature has done two things. He has established a constancy and uniformity in the operations of nature. And he has impressed upon our minds, a conviction or belief of this constancy and uniformity, and that things will be as they have been."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"Grand objects make a deep impression upon the mind, and give force to that passion which occupies it at the time."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"Any object alarms the mind, when it is already prepared by darkness, to receive impressions of fear."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"Frightful ideas croud into the mind, and augment the fear, which is occasioned by darkness."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"The imagination is thereby kept within bounds, and under due subjection to sense and reason."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"The mind is like the eye. It cannot take in an object that is very great or very little."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"This sentiment, rooted in the mind, is an antidote to all misfortune."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"We first consider the nature of that act of the mind, which is termed belief; of which the immediate foundation is the testimony of our senses."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"There are few among Mankind, who have not been often struck with Admiration at the Sight of that Variety of Colours and Magnificence of Form, which appear in an Evening Rainbow. The uninstructed in Philosophy consider that splendid Object, not as dependent on any other, but as being possessed of...

— Brown, John (1715-1766)

Date: 1751

"Another Source of mutual Misapprehension on this Subject hath been 'the Introduction of metaphorical Expressions instead of proper ones.' Nothing is so common among the Writers on Morality, as 'the Harmony of Virtue'—'the Proportion of Virtue.'"

— Brown, John (1715-1766)