Date: 1748, 1777
"If they tell me, that they have mounted on the steps or by the gradual ascent of reason, and by drawing inferences from effects to causes, I still insist, that they have aided the ascent of reason by the wings of imagination; otherwise they could not thus change their manner of inference, and ar...
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Date: 1747-8
"And that the Whole would be thereby deprived of that Variety, which is deemed the Soul of a Feast, whether mensal or mental."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"If in look, if in speech, a girl waves way to undue levity, depend upon it, the devil has got one of his cloven feet in her heart already."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"To send a man and horse on purpose; as I did! My imagination chained to the belly of the beast, in order to keep pace with him!"
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Date: w. c. 1748
"Secondly, Those Characters sink deeper into the Mind of the Reader, and stamp there a perfect Idea of the very Turn of Thought, by which the Originals were actuated, and diversified from each other."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Yet her charming body is not equally organized. The unequal partners pull two ways; and the divinity within her tears her silken frame."
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Date: 1747-8
"So now, Belford, as thou hast said, I am a machine at last, and no free agent."
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Date: 1748, 1777
"It may, therefore, be a subject worthy of curiosity, to enquire what is the nature of that evidence, which assures us of any real existence and matter of fact, beyond the present testimony of our senses, or the records of our memory."
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Date: 1748, 1777
"By means of it alone we attain any assurance concerning objects, which are removed from the present testimony of our memory and senses."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1748
"What, what is virtue, but repose of mind, / A pure ethereal calm, that knows no storm?"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)