Date: 1710, 1734
"Ancient and rooted prejudices do often pass into principles: and those propositions which once obtain the force and credit of a principle, are not only themselves, but likewise whatever is deducible from them, thought privileged from all examination. And there is no absurdity so gross, which by ...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1710, 1734
"Is it therefore to be wondered at, if the generality of men, who are ever intent on business or pleasure, and little used to fix or open the eye of their mind, should not have all that conviction and evidence of the being of God, which might be expected in reasonable creatures?"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
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."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: From Thursd. March 16. to Saturd. March 18. 1710
"Reading is to the Mind, what Exercise is to the Body."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: From Thursday May 18. to Saturday May 20. 1710
"By this Means, a disordered Mind, like a broken Limb, will recover its Strength by the sole Benefit of being out of Use, and lying without Motion."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: From Saturday June 3. to Tuesday June 6. 1710
"The Mind in Infancy is, methinks, like the Body in Embrio, and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any Mark with which a Child is born is to be taken away by any future Application."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 1711
"It is impossible to enumerate the Evils which arise from these Arrows that fly in the dark, and I know no other Excuse that is or can be made for them, than that the Wounds they give are only Imaginary, and produce nothing more than a secret Shame or Sorrow in the Mind of the suffering Person."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Friday, June 8, 1711
"In this Case, however, I think the Air of the whole Face is much more expressive than the Lines of it: The Truth of it is, the Air is generally nothing else but the inward Disposition of the Mind made visible."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 1711
"The very Substance of the Soul is festered with them, the Gangrene is gone too far to be ever cured; the Inflammation will rage to all Eternity."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Friday, July 27, 1711
"Women in their Nature are much more gay and joyous than Men; whether it be that their Blood is more refined, their Fibres more delicate, and their animal Spirits more light and volatile; or whether, as some have imagined, there may not be a kind of Sex in the very Soul, I shall not pretend to de...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)