Date: 1740
"But notwithstanding the empire of the imagination, there is a secret tie or union among particular ideas, which causes the mind to conjoin them more frequently together, and makes the one, upon its appearance, introduce the other."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1743
Dullness "rul'd, in native Anarchy, the mind"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1743
"The native Anarchy of the mind is that state which precedes the time of Reason's assuming the rule of the Passions"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1743
Dullness in the "absence of Reason," tho' she cannot regulate the Passions like Reason, yet blunts and deadens their Vigour, and, indeed, produces some of the good effects"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1745
"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1748, 1754
The law "is within us, ever present with us, ever active and incumbent on the Mind, and engraven on the Heart in the fair and large Signatures of Conscience, Natural Affection, Compassion, Gratitude, and universal Benevolence."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"To those good Dispositions, which respect the several Objects of our Duty, and to all Actions which flow from such Disposition, the Mind gives its Sanction or Testimony."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"For if Virtue is something that deserves our Esteem and Love, then it must exist before Conscience is exerted, or gives its Testimony."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"At least we generally esteem [Neatness, Cleanliness, and Decency, to which we may add Dignity of Countenance, and Demeanour] Indications of an orderly, genteel, and well-governed Mind, conscious of inward Worth, or the Respect due to one's Nature."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)