Date: 1727
"For it's whole Systeme Aims at this, to make the Furniture of every Person's Mind Alike, their Reason and Faculties the same, and which Garniture, after it has made it a Rasa Tabula, must be of it's own Supplying; 'Tis an Empty Room, without any Thing to Set if off or Adorn it, till this Philoso...
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Date: 1727
"We rather take Notice of this here; Because this Philosophy had made the Mind a Rasa Tabula, or a Blank Paper, or an Empty and Void Room without any Furniture, which therefore it was to Supply; And this is done by Storing it with it's Simple Ideas from Sensation and Reflection, and from thence D...
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Date: 1727
Artificial Memory "Consisted in making Choice of a Certain Number of Loci, or Places, which were Distinguished from each Other by their Order, of First, Second, &c. by Various Spaces, Figures, and Intervals, and by Certain Marks and Characters, where were Affixed to every Fifth, or Tenth p...
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Date: 1727
"Thus when the villain crams his chest, / Gold is the canker of the breast"
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Date: 1728
"I must have Women. There is nothing unbends the Mind like them."
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Date: 1728
"If Love the Virgin's Heart invade, / How, like a Moth, the simple Maid / Still plays about the Flame!"
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Date: 1728
"Though my Heart were as frozen as Ice, / At his Flame 'twould have melted away."
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Date: 1728
"My Heart was so free, / It rov'd like the Bee, / 'Till Polly my Passion requited."
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Date: 1729
"To Coin, like Man, a little Ape, / 'Gainst Heaven is High-Treason"
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Date: 1734
"While Gold will make their Minds to bow, / As Fire doe's green Wood, any how."
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