Date: 1710, 1734
"It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses"
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Date: 1710, 1734
"That number is entirely the creature of the mind, even though the other qualities be allowed to exist without, will be evident to whoever considers, that the same thing bears a different denomination of number, as the mind views it with different respects."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1710, 1734
Parcels of matter may be "so many occasions to remind" God "when and what ideas to imprint on our minds"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1710, 1734
A prejudice may be "riveted so deeply in our thoughts, that we can scarce tell how to part with it"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1710, 1734
"For example, the will is termed the motion of the soul: this infuses a belief, that the mind of man is as a ball in motion, impelled and determined by the objects of sense, as necessarily as that is by the stroke of a racket."
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Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"His [Man's] ranging Soul in narrow Bounds contains / All Nature's Works, o'er which in Peace he reigns."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Senses stand around; the Spirits roam / To seize and bring the fleeting Objects home: / Thro' every Nerve and every Pore they pass."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710
A people may be "tempted by a Thousand Arts, / To stamp Mod'ration in their Hearts"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1710
"Now, when a mutual Flame you have reveal'd, / And the dear Union of our Souls is seal'd,"
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Reflection is the last and greatest Bliss: / When turning backwards with inverted Eyes, / The Soul it self and all its Charms, surveys, / The deep Impressions of Coelestial Grace / And Image of the Godhead."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)