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Date: 1764
"The fabric of the human mind is intricate and wonderful, as well as that of the structure of the human body. The faculties of the one are with no less wisdom adpated to their several ends, than the organs of the other."
preview | full record— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
Date: 1764
"In the arts and sciences which have least connection with the mind, its faculties are the engines which we must employ; and the better we understand their nature and use, their defects and disorders, the more skilfully we shall apply them, and with the greater success."
preview | full record— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
Date: 1764
"The painter, the poet, the actor, the orator, the moralist, and the statesman, attempt to operate upon the mind in different ways, and for different ends; and they succeed, according as they touch properly the strings of the human frame."
preview | full record— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
Date: 1764
"His [Newton's] regulae philosophandi are maxims of common sense, and are practised every day in common life; and he who philosophizes by other rules, either concerning the material system, or concerning the mind, mistakes his aim."
preview | full record— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
Date: 1764
"All that we know of the body, is owing to anatomical dissection and observation, and it must be by an anatomy of the mind that we can discover its powers and principles."
preview | full record— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
Date: 1764
"But the anatomist of the mind cannot have the same advantage."
preview | full record— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
Date: w. 1764, 1953
"My mind is like an air-pump which receives and ejects ideas with wonderful facility."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1764
"And by the way, according to the all-wise appointment of Providence, it is the same with the human mind, as it is with the earth; for education and good agriculture make the like improvements upon either."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1764
"In order to guard against any dangers before hand, it would he necessary for lying-in women in some sort to quiet their senses, and to have their voluble ideas and passions as it were overloaded with fetters."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1764
"For when the hostile army rushes in at the windows of the body, and certain battalions of perturbations have so entered the castle of the mind, that the soul is taken captive, as it were, and oppressed beyond measure, sure, by troops of affections proceeding from the senses of seeing, hearing, s...
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