Date: 1751
"To this end, the Author of our nature has done two things. He has established a constancy and uniformity in the operations of nature. And he has impressed upon our minds, a conviction or belief of this constancy and uniformity, and that things will be as they have been."
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Date: 1751
"Grand objects make a deep impression upon the mind, and give force to that passion which occupies it at the time."
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Date: 1751
"Any object alarms the mind, when it is already prepared by darkness, to receive impressions of fear."
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Date: 1751
"Frightful ideas croud into the mind, and augment the fear, which is occasioned by darkness."
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Date: 1751
"The imagination is thereby kept within bounds, and under due subjection to sense and reason."
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Date: 1751
"The mind is like the eye. It cannot take in an object that is very great or very little."
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Date: 1751
"This sentiment, rooted in the mind, is an antidote to all misfortune."
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Date: 1751
"We first consider the nature of that act of the mind, which is termed belief; of which the immediate foundation is the testimony of our senses."
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Date: 1756
"Many Things have been said, and very well undoubtedly, on the Subjection in which we should preserve our Bodies to the Government of our Understanding; but enough has not been said upon the Restraint which our bodily Necessities ought to lay on the extravagant Sublimities, and excentrick Rovings...
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Date: 1756
"Yet we have implanted in us by Providence Ideas, Axioms, Rules, of what is pious, just, fair, honest, which no Political Craft, nor learned Sophistry, can entirely expel from our Breasts."
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