Date: 1751
"Grand objects make a deep impression upon the mind, and give force to that passion which occupies it at the time."
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Date: 1751
"Any object alarms the mind, when it is already prepared by darkness, to receive impressions of fear."
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Date: 1751
"Frightful ideas croud into the mind, and augment the fear, which is occasioned by darkness."
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Date: 1751
"The imagination is thereby kept within bounds, and under due subjection to sense and reason."
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Date: 1751
"The mind is like the eye. It cannot take in an object that is very great or very little."
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Date: 1751
"This sentiment, rooted in the mind, is an antidote to all misfortune."
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Date: 1751
"We first consider the nature of that act of the mind, which is termed belief; of which the immediate foundation is the testimony of our senses."
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Date: 1794
"Emporium, a market-town; but metaphorically applied to the brain, which is the seat of all rational and sensitive transaction."
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