Date: 1651, 1668
"Sometimes also in the merely civil government, there be more than one soul: as when the power of levying money, (which is the nutritive faculty,) has depended on a general assembly; the power of conduct and command, (which is the motive faculty,) on one man; and the power of making laws, (which ...
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Date: 1651, 1668
"For as in this disease, there is an unnatural spirit, or wind in the head that obstructeth the roots of the nerves, and moving them violently, taketh away the motion which naturally they should have from the power of the soul in the brain, and thereby causeth violent, and irregular motions (whic...
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Date: 1651, 1668
"Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himselfe entangled in words, as a bird in lime twiggs; the more he st...
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Date: 1651, 1668
"From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little summs into a greater, without considering whether those little summes were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the errour visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to cl...
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Date: 1651, 1668
"For words are wise mens counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the mony of fooles, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other Doctor whatsoever, if but a man."
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Date: 1653
"Thoughts as a Pen do write upon the Braine; / The Letters which wise Thoughts do write, are plaine."
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Date: 1653
"Or Thoughts like Pencils draw still to the Life, / And Fancies mixt, as colours give delight."
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Date: 1653
"Sad melancholy Thoughts are for Shadowes plac'd, / By which the lighter Fancies are more grac'd."
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Date: 1653
"Thoughts are for Shadowes plac'd, / By which the lighter Fancies are more graced. / As through a dark, and watry Cloud, more bright, / The Sun breakes forth with his Resplendent Light. / Or like to Night's black Mantle, where each Star / Doth clearer seem, so lighter Fancies are."
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Date: 1653
"Some like to Rain-bowes various Colours shew, / So round the Braine Fantastick Fancies grow."
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