Date: 1709
"She was bred up with him, accustom'd to his Charms, they made no impression upon her Heart!"
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Date: 1709
"She ran to meet him as he alighted; her young Face, over-spread with blushing Joys! his transport exceeded hers! he took her in his Arms with eagerness! he exchang'd all his Pains for Pleasures! there was the Cure of his past Anguish! her Kisses were the Balm to his wounded Mind!"
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Date: 1710
"Now, thought is to the mind what motion is to the body; both are equally improved by exercise and impaired by disuse"
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Date: 1710, 1734
Ideas may be brought "bare and naked" into one's view, keeping out" the names.
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Date: 1710, 1734
"It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses"
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Date: 1710, 1734
"That number is entirely the creature of the mind, even though the other qualities be allowed to exist without, will be evident to whoever considers, that the same thing bears a different denomination of number, as the mind views it with different respects."
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Date: 1710, 1734
"But neither can this be said; for though we give the materialists their external bodies, they by their own confession are never the nearer knowing how our ideas are produced: since they own themselves unable to comprehend in what manner body can act upon spirit, or how it is possible it should i...
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Date: 1710, 1734
There are ideas in the mind of God, "which are so many marks or notes that direct him how to produce sensations in our minds" just as a musician uses notes to produce a tune.
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Date: 1710, 1734
Parcels of matter may be "so many occasions to remind" God "when and what ideas to imprint on our minds"
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Date: 1710, 1734
A prejudice may be "riveted so deeply in our thoughts, that we can scarce tell how to part with it"
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