Date: April, 1783
"As, however, his penetration could not but see that all this is absolutely incompatible with a spiritual substance which mind is, he, immediately without any interruption or preparation whatever, proceeds very quietly, though most effectually, to contradict what he has been assuming, and to anni...
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Date: April, 1783
"And yet in my own mind I am not sure but there may be such, an analogy between the nature of spirit and that of matter, as to admit of a receptacle of ideas."
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Date: 1785
"He [Johnson] said, he did not grudge Burke's being the first man in the House of Commons, for he was the first man every where; but he grudged that a fellow who makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar cruet, should make a figure in the House of Commons, mere...
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Date: 1785
"His mind was so full of imagery, that he might have been perpetually a poet."
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Date: 1785
"Meals are wished for from the cravings of vacuity of mind, as well as from the desire of eating."
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Date: 1785
"I have often experienced, that scenes through which a man has passed, improve by lying in the memory: they grow mellow."
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Date: 1785
"I answered I would not; and he applauded my setting such a value on an accession of new images in my mind."
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