Date: Thursday, June 9, to Saturday, June 11, 1709
"The fellow with broken limbs justly deserves your alms for his impotent condition; but he that cannot use his own reason, is in a much worse state; for you see him in miserable circumstances, with his remedy at the same time in his own possession, if he would or could use it."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: From Tuesday Dec. 13. to Thursd. Dec. 15. 1709
"To tell you truly, said I, about the Thirtieth Year of my Age, I received a Wound that has still left a Scar in my Mind, never to be quite worn out by Time or Philosophy."
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Date: 1710
"Now, thought is to the mind what motion is to the body; both are equally improved by exercise and impaired by disuse"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1710, 1734
Ideas may be brought "bare and naked" into one's view, keeping out" the names.
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1710, 1734
"Ancient and rooted prejudices do often pass into principles: and those propositions which once obtain the force and credit of a principle, are not only themselves, but likewise whatever is deducible from them, thought privileged from all examination. And there is no absurdity so gross, which by ...
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Date: 1710, 1734
"Is it therefore to be wondered at, if the generality of men, who are ever intent on business or pleasure, and little used to fix or open the eye of their mind, should not have all that conviction and evidence of the being of God, which might be expected in reasonable creatures?"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: From Thursday May 18. to Saturday May 20. 1710
"By this Means, a disordered Mind, like a broken Limb, will recover its Strength by the sole Benefit of being out of Use, and lying without Motion."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: From Saturday June 3. to Tuesday June 6. 1710
"The Mind in Infancy is, methinks, like the Body in Embrio, and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any Mark with which a Child is born is to be taken away by any future Application."
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Date: Monday, December 3, 1711
"Among all the Diseases of the Mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the Love of Flattery."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Wednesday, June 6, 1711
"Pardon me, oh Pharamond, if my Griefs give me Leave, that I lay before you, in the Anguish of a wounded Mind, that you, good as you are, are guilty of the generous Blood spilt this Day by this unhappy Hand: Oh that it had perished before that Instant!"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)