Date: 1697
A "thoughtless, senseless, lifeless Soul" is the "Carcase of a Soul"
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Date: 1697
"What Cause can you assign able to produce the first Thought at the end of this Sleep and Silence, in a total Ecclipse and intermission of Thinking?"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"Upon your Supposition That all our Thoughts perish in sound Sleep, and all Cogitation is extinct, we seem to have a new Soul every Morning."
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"If a Flame be extinct, the same cannot return, but a new one may be made."
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Date: 1697
"If a Body cease to move, and come to perfect rest, the Motion it had cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd."
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"If all Cogitation be extinct, all our Ideas are extinct, so far as they are Cogitations, and seated in the Soul: So we must have them new imprest; we are, as it were, new born and begin the World again"
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Date: 1697
It is commendable for "a Man to attend to his own Thoughts and Conceptions, and the best Light he hath"
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Date: 1701
"But that little availed, for Artesia having in like sort opened the Device to Pamela, she (in whose mind Vertue governed with the Scepter of Knowledge) hating so horrible a Wickedness, and strait judging what was fit to do."
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Date: 1704
"My Soul's, as to that Affair, a clean sheet of Paper, a meer Tabula Rasa; therefore, Sir, you may impress any Characters in the World upon it; Mahometan, Jew, or Pagan, 'tis all a case to your poor distressed Servant"
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)