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Date: 1745
"The body is but the house; the soul is the tenant that inhabits it; the body is the instrument; the soul the artist that directs it."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)
"That perhaps this may be a state of imprisonment to the soul, as many of the philosophers thought; and that when it is set at liberty from the body, it may obtain new and noble ways of perception and action, to us at present unknown."
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)