Date: [1782]
"I must now further observe to you, that the Brain is also the Seat or Residence of the MIND or SOUL of the Animal.--That it is the Grand Emporium of all Intelligence, and of all Ideas and Species of external Objects presented there by the Nerves."
preview | full record— Martin, Benjamin (bap. 1705, d. 1782)
Date: 1794
"The mind is not a rasa tabula, though, at the same time, it must be allowed, we gain no actual knowledge of the latent ideas which it possesses, but as they are awakened by reflection and experience."
preview | full record— Sullivan, Richard Joseph, Sir (1752-1806)
Date: 1794
"The rasa tabula will not allow us to have mental ideas."
preview | full record— Sullivan, Richard Joseph, Sir (1752-1806)
Date: 1794
"Emporium, a market-town; but metaphorically applied to the brain, which is the seat of all rational and sensitive transaction."
preview | full record— Quincy, John (d. 1722)