Date: 1693
"When I did first this charming object view, / Her Image in my Mind took Root & grew."
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Date: May 10, 1704
"As the face of nature never produces rain but when it is overcast and disturbed, so human understanding, seated in the brain, must be troubled and overspread by vapours ascending from the lower faculties to water the invention, and render it fruitful."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: May 10, 1704
"Thus far, I suppose, will easily be granted me; and then it will follow that as the face of Nature never produces rain but when it is overcast and disturbed, so human understanding seated in the brain must be troubled and overspread by vapours ascending from the lower faculties to water the inve...
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Date: 1709
An "early prejudice" may have "implanted in the mind" a "false persuasion"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1709
A "false persuasion" "implanted in the mind" by prejudice may be rooted out
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