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Date: 387-8 or 391-5

"Our next subject is whether reason judges the inner sense."

— St. Augustine (354-430)

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Date: 387-8 or 391-5

"I think so because I know that the inner sense is a kind of controller or judge of the bodily sense."

— St. Augustine (354-430)

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Date: 1700

"Nay, hold a little, my hearts of Steel: The Law takes notice of Life and Death, d'ee see."

— Manning, Francis (c. 1673-1755)

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Date: 1752, 1790

A mind may be " Void of all coquettish arts, / And vain designs of conquering hearts"

— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)

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Date: 1752, 1790

A mind may be "soft, tho' bright, like her own eyes, / Discreetly witty, gayly wise."

— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)

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Date: 1769

"The learned and ingenious Brown, in his Procedure of the Understanding, observes that 'common sense and Reason, to them who will use them in a plain Way, make it evident that we have no immediate or direct Idea or Perception of Sprit, or any of its Operations, as we have of Body and its Qualitie...

— Jackson, W., of Lichfield Close (fl. 1769)

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Date: 1812

Love or Pride may be a master-passion

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.