Date: 1706
"Oh! where shall I begin? what language find / To heal the raging anguish of your mind?"
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1706, 1709
"In vain the Harlot Pleasure spreads her Charms / To lull his Thoughts in Luxuries fair Lap / To sensual Ease, (the Bane of little Kings, / Monarchs whose waxen Images of Souls / Are moulded into Softness) still his Mind / Wears its own Shape."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
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."
preview | full record— 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."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Revolve, to cast about in one's Mind."
preview | full record— 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,"
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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."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Imprint, to Engrave, or fix a thing in one's Mind."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Longanimity, (Lat. q.d. Length of Mind) Longsuffering, great Patices, or Forbearance. "
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706
"Did this state of mind remain always so, every one would, without scruple, give it the name of perfect madness; and whilst it does last, at whatever intervals it returns, such a rotation of thoughts about the same object no more carries us forwards towards the attainment of knowledge, than getti...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)