Date: 1702
"In the meantime there can be but two ways of knowing that Veracity is a Perfection, either it is an innate Principle, originally Imprinted on the Mind, (which I shall not endeavour to confute, Mr. Lock having done it sufficiently, nor is it needful to my Purpose)."
preview | full record— Trotter, Catherine, later Cockburn, (1674?-1749)
Date: 1702
"Do you understand how your Soul ... preserves its Treasure of Ideas, to produce them at pleasure"?
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Date: 1702
"The force of which Argument lies thus, Cogitation in the Soul answering to Motion in Body, as the same Motion cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd; so the same Cogitations cannot be restor'd, but new Cogitations must be produc'd."
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Date: 1702
But if ideas "remain in the Soul when I was only thinking of a Horse, whereever they are bestow'd, it may be presum'd, there is room for that one idea more without thrusting out another to give it place: and when that one is among them, I see no more reason why they must be all new imprest, than ...
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Date: 1702
It is "most consonant to Reason to think this [LIfe] is only a State of Probation, and that the dispensation of Rewards and Punishments, is reserv'd for a Future Life; there being no other way to reconcile the partial distribution of things here, to that order which we know is agreeable to the Di...
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Date: 1720
"Poetry is called the image of the mind, / In mine my soul and body both are joined."
preview | full record— Sansom, Martha [née Fowke] (1690-1736)
Date: 1720
The eyes speak the mind's "the lover's mind"
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Date: 1720
"Large is my forehead made, not wond'rous fair, / But room enough for all the Muses there."
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Date: 1726
"Oh! I hate the wretched victors: / Fancy would fain paint their pictures."
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