Date: 1727
"With inflected View, / Thence on th' Ideal Kingdom, swift, she turns / Her Eye; and instant, at her virtual Glance, / Th' obedient Phantoms vanish, and appear, / Compound, divide, and into Order shift, / Each to his rank, from plain Perception up / To Notion quite abstract; where first begins / ...
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Date: 1734
"Reason then must fall into the grossest Mistakes, when it meddles in things beyond its Line, or out of its Sphere: in this case 'tis like an incompetent Judge, and the Conclusions must be absurd."
preview | full record— Forbes of Pitsligo, Alexander Forbes, Lord (1678-1762)
Date: 1734
"And if it be said that the Understanding, which is but passive it self, like the bodily Eye, cannot be called the Leader of the rest of the Faculties; it must be granted, that (strictly speaking) it is rather the Light than the Guide: for if we consider it in the three Operations mention'd by th...
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Date: 1734
"Shall we say then, that there is a first Mover within us, a Mind, Rector, or presiding Faculty over the rest?"
preview | full record— Forbes of Pitsligo, Alexander Forbes, Lord (1678-1762)
Date: 1742
" But what supreme joy in the victories over vice as well as misery, when, by virtuous example or wise exhortation, our fellow-creatures are taught to govern their passions, reform their vices, and subdue their worst enemies, which inhabit within their own bosoms?"
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1746
"With inward view, / Thence on the ideal kingdom swift she turns / Her eye; and instant, at her powerful glance, / The obedient phantoms vanish or appear; / Compound, divide, and into order shift, / Each to his rank, from plain perception up / To the fair forms of Fancy's fleeting train."
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Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Within my bosom reigns another lord; / Honour, sole judge and umpire of itself."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1759
"The different passions and appetites, the natural subjects of this ruling principle, but which are so apt to rebel against their master, he reduced to two different classes or orders."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1761
"Such persons are not accustomed to consult the judge within concerning the opinion which they ought to form of their own conduct."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1761
"This inmate of the breast, this abstract man, the representative of mankind, and substitute of the Deity, whom nature has constituted the supreme judge of all their actions is seldom appealed to by them."
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