Date: 1701, 1704
"As in a Looking-glass, in which he that looks does indeed immediately behold the Species in the Glass, but does also at the same time actually behold Peter or Paul whose Image it is."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1701, 1704
"The application of our Thoughts to other Subjects is like looking upon the Rays of the Sun as it shines to us from a Wall, or upon the Image of it as it returns from a Watry Mirrour, but this is looking up directly against the Fons veri lucidus, the bright Source of Intellectual Light a...
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Contemplation, Contemplating, Meditation, Study: In Metaphysicks, it is Defin'd to be the preserving of an Idea or Conception, which is brought into the Mind, for some time actually in View."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)