Date: 1751
"To this end, the Author of our nature has done two things. He has established a constancy and uniformity in the operations of nature. And he has impressed upon our minds, a conviction or belief of this constancy and uniformity, and that things will be as they have been."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1751
"Grand objects make a deep impression upon the mind, and give force to that passion which occupies it at the time."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1751
"Any object alarms the mind, when it is already prepared by darkness, to receive impressions of fear."
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Date: 1757
"Since, therefore, the mind of man appears of so loose and unsteddy a contexture, that, even at present, when so many persons find an interest in continually employing on it the chissel and the hammer, yet are they not able to engrave theological tenets with any lasting impression; how much more ...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1770
"Why should not our judgments concerning truth be acknowledged to result from a bias impressed upon the mind by its Creator, as well as our desire of self-preservation, our love of society, our resentment of injury, our joy in the possession of good?"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)