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Date: 1776
"By the memory, on the contrary, that great luminary of the mind, things past are exhibited in retrospect; we have no correspondent faculty to irradiate the future: and even in matters which fall not within the reach of our memory, past events are often clearly discoverable by testimony, and by e...
preview | full record— Campbell, George (1719-1796)
Date: 1776
"My third observation is, that pain of every kind generally makes a deeper impression on the imagination than pleasure does, and is longer retained by the memory."
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Date: 1776
"Thus, language and thought, like body and soul, are made to correspond, and the qualities of the one exactly to co-operate with those of the other."
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Date: 1776
"Sense in this passage denotes an inward feeling, or the impression which some sentiment makes upon the mind."
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Date: 1776
"'This temper of soul,' says the Guardian, speaking of meekness and humility,'keeps our understanding tight about us.' Whether the author had any meaning in this expression, or what it was, I shall not take upon me to determine; but hardly could any thing more incongruous in the way of metaphor, ...
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Date: 1776
"Whatever regards the analysis of the operations of the mind, which is quicker than lightning in all her energies, must in a great measure be abstruse and dark."
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Date: 1776
"It is not more evident that the imagination is more strongly affected by things sensible than by things intelligible, than it is evident that things animate awaken greater attention, and make a stronger impression on the mind than things senseless."
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Date: 1776
"It is sufficient that such things be hinted to the understanding, so that the meaning may be apprehended, it is by no means fit that they be painted in the liveliest colours to the fancy."
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Date: 1776
"But who that has the least spark of imagination, sees not how languid the latter expression is, when compared with the former."
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Date: 1776
"You will thus convert a piece of abstruse reflexion, which, however just, makes but a slender impression upon the mind, into the most affecting and instructive imagery."
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