Date: 1651, 1668
"All fancies are motions within us, relics of those made in the sense: and those motions that immediately succeeded one another in the sense, continue also together after sense: insomuch as the former coming again to take place, and be predominant, the latter followeth, by coherence of the matter...
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1741
"So for Instance, in Children; they perceive and forget a hundred Things in an Hour; the Brain is so soft that it receives immediately all Impressions like Water or liquid Mud, and retains scarce any of them: All the Traces, Forms or Images which are drawn there, are immediately effaced or closed...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: February, 1821
"I said to myself, 'This is true eloquence: this is a man pouring out his mind on paper.'"
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)