Date: January 1739
"Since the imagination, therefore, in running from low to high, finds an opposition in its internal qualities and principles, and since the soul, when elevated with joy and courage, in a manner seeks opposition, and throws itself with alacrity into any scene of thought or action where its courage...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: January 1739
"The attention is on the stretch; the posture of the mind is uneasy; and the spirits being diverted from their natural course, are not governed in their movements by the same laws, at least not to the same degree, as when they flow in their usual channel."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: November, 1740
"The anatomist ought never to emulate the painter; nor in his accurate dissections and portraitures of the smaller parts of the human body, pretend to give his figures any graceful and engaging attitude or expression. There is even something hideous, or at least minute, in the views of thing...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1742
"Proceed to learn the just value of every pursuit; long study is not requisite: Compare, though but for once, the mind to the body, virtue to fortune, and glory to pleasure."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1742
"The mind, unexercised, finds every delight insipid and loathsome; and ere yet the body, full of noxious humours, feels the torment of its multiplied diseases, your nobler part is sensible of the invading poison, and seeks in vain to relieve its anxiety by new pleasures, which still augment the f...
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Date: 1742, 1777
"Such are effectually excluded from all pretensions to philosophy, and the medicine of the mind, so much boasted."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1745
"Truth is an amiable and delightful Object to the Eye of the Mind, but it is not easily apprehended by the Bulk of Mankind; especially if it be remote from common Observation, or abstracted from sensible Experience."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1745
"Bear Witness, Heaven! Thou Mind-inspecting Eye! / My Breast is pure."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1746, 1793
"Yet, could'st thou in that dreadful hour, / On my rack'd soul all Lethe pour, / Or fan me with the gelid breeze, / That chains in ice th' indignant seas."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1746
"There let the classic Page thy fancy lead / Thro rural Scenes; such as the Mantuan Swain / Paints in the matchless Harmony of Song. / Or catch thyself the Landskip, gliding swift / Athwart Imagination's vivid Eye."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)