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Work title:
"A Course of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)
"The power which the mind evidently has of moving the various parts of the body by nerves inserted in the muscles is truly wonderful, seeing the mind neither knows the muscles to be moved, nor the machinery, by which the motion in it is to be produced: so that it is as if a musician should always...
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)
"When actual thought is suspended, there may remain some secret power of thinking resulting from the constitution of the soul, which will exert itself when the obstruction is removed. As a bow when bent has a disposition to straiten itself again, or a clock to strike, though the hammer be held ba...
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
