Date: 1697
"You compare Cogitation in a Spirit, to Motion in a Body, and so Cessation from Thought in a a Spirit, must answer to Rest in a Body"
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Date: 1697
A "thoughtless, senseless, lifeless Soul" is the "Carcase of a Soul"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"If a Body cease to move, and come to perfect rest, the Motion it had cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd."
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Date: 1710, 1714
"You would wonder to hear how close he pushes matters and how thoroughly he carries on the business of self-dissection. By virtue of this soliloquy, he becomes two distinct persons. He is pupil and preceptor. He teaches and he learns."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1710, 1714
"It must be such and such an Understanding; as when we say, for instance, such or such a Face: since Nature has characteriz'd Tempers and Minds as peculiarly as Faces."
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Date: 1710, 1714
The Parallel is easily made on the side of Writers. They have at least as much need of learning the several Motions, Counterpoises and Ballances of the Mind and Passions, as the other Students those of the Body and Limbs."
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