-
Literary Period
-
Age of Sensibility
-
Early Modern
-
Long Eighteenth Century
-
-
Metaphor Category
-
Government
-
Writing
-
Container (1)
-
-
Genre
-
Prose
-
- Gender of Author
-
Nationality of Author
-
Scottish
-
- Politics of Author
- Religion of Author
AND
Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
AND
Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
,
"Early Modern"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Government"
,
"Writing"
returned 3 results(s) in 0.003 seconds
Date: 1748, 1777
"It may, therefore, be a subject worthy of curiosity, to enquire what is the nature of that evidence, which assures us of any real existence and matter of fact, beyond the present testimony of our senses, or the records of our memory."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1748, 1754
The law "is within us, ever present with us, ever active and incumbent on the Mind, and engraven on the Heart in the fair and large Signatures of Conscience, Natural Affection, Compassion, Gratitude, and universal Benevolence."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"Nature has therefore endued us with a MIDDLE FACULTY, wonderfully adapted to our MIXED State, which holds partly of Sense and partly of Reason, being strongly allied to the former, and the common Receptacle in which all the Notices that come from that quarter are treasured up, and yet greatly su...
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
