Date: 1741, 1742, 1755
"For it was Aristotle's opinion, who compared the soul to a 'rasa tabula', that human sensations and reflections were passions: These therefore are what he finely calls, the 'passive intelligent'; which, he says, shall cease, or is corruptible."
preview | full record— Warburton, William (1698-1779)
Date: 1741, 1742, 1755
"A Miracle that can be accounted for no other Way, than by what has been said above of the Legislator's principal Concern in the Support of the Doctrine; and of the deep Root it takes in the Mind of Man, when once it is received, by its agreeable Nature."
preview | full record— Warburton, William (1698-1779)
Date: 1741, 1742, 1755
"Which they explained by a Bottle's being filled with Sea Water, that swimming there a while, on the Bottle's breaking, flowed in again, and mingled with the common Mass."
preview | full record— Warburton, William (1698-1779)