Date: September 6, 1695; 1708
"Mr. Molyneux's ingenious Question, of which you gave me an Account at Mr. Lukey's Yesterday, has run so much in my Mind ever since, that I could scarce drive it out of my Thoughts."
preview | full record— Synge, Edward (1659-1741)
Date: September 6, 1695; 1708
"To be reveng'd on you therefore for putting my Brains into such a Ferment, I have resolved to be so impertinent as to send you the Result of my Meditations upon the Subject."
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Date: 1709
"Complex Ideas are the Creatures of the Mind"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1709
"There croud into his mind the ideas which compose the visible man, in company with all the other ideas of sight perceived at the same time."
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Date: 1709
An "early prejudice" may have "implanted in the mind" a "false persuasion"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1709
A "false persuasion" "implanted in the mind" by prejudice may be rooted out
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1709
Ideas may be "immediately imprinted on the mind"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 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."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Thursday, May 5, to Saturday, May 7, 1709
"Such images as these give us a new pleasure in our sight, and fix upon our minds traces of reflection, which accompany us whenever the like objects occur."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Saturday, May 7, to Tuesday, May 10, 1709
"The next, as I said, I went to was a common swearer: never was creature so puzzled as myself when I came first to view his brain; half of it was worn out, and filled up with mere expletives, that had nothing to do with any other parts of the texture."
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