Date: 1697

"As a Ship at Sea running swiftly thro the Waves, leaves behind a Track, which is almost as soon lost as made, so that no sign can be found of its Passage thro that fluid Element: So the moisture of the Brain may be susceptible of an Idea for the present, but 'tis not lasting, nor is there any si...

— D'Assigny, Marius (1643-1717)

Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Innate Principles, certain Original Notions or Characters which some Philosophers will have to be stamp'd on the Mind of Man when it first receives its Being."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Reminiscence, the Faculty, or Power of rememb'ring, whereby such Ideas, or Notions, as were once perceived, or imprinted on the Mind, but afterwards forgotten, are call'd again and brought fresh to its Remembrance."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Revolve, to cast about in one's Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Strike, to beat or hit, to affect or make an Impression upon the Senses or Mind; to make Measure even with a Strike or Strickle,"

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Agitation, an agitating, violent Motion, joulting, tumbling or tossing; Disturbance ro Disquiet of Mind, Trouble; also the management of Business in Hand. In a Philosophical Sense, the brisk inward Motion of the Corpuscles or very small Parts of any natural Body."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Imprint, to Engrave, or fix a thing in one's Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Longanimity, (Lat. q.d. Length of Mind) Longsuffering, great Patices, or Forbearance. "

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1785

"To apply his great mind to minute particulars, is wrong: it is like taking an immense balance, such as is kept on quays for weighing cargoes of ships, to weigh a guinea. I knew I had neat little scales, which would do better; and that his attention to every thing which falls in his way, and his ...

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1854

"What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact, that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many tho...

— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)