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Date: 1711

"The Internuncii you speak of, are the Animal Spirits, and that they are the intermediate Officers between the Soul and the grosser parts of the Body no Man denies."

— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)

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Date: 1711

"And reflecting on what is transacted within us, it seems to me a very diverting Scene to think when we strive to recollect something that does not then occur; how nimbly those volatil Messengers of ours will beat through all the Paths, and hunt every Enclosure of the Organ set aside for thinking...

— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)

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Date: 1712, 1796

"But what had been already said, / On David's mind a deep impression made."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

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Date: 1712, 1796

"But what he from the Lord had to him said, / On David's heart a deep impression made"

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

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Date: 1712, 1796

"Her body delicate, wherein enshrin'd, / As in its temple, dwelt a virtuous mind."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

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Date: 1712, 1796

"Small hopes he had, yet could not choose but try / His father's stormy mind to pacify."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

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Date: 1712, 1796

"He special care would of his safety take, / Both for his own, and for his father's sake, / Whose well-deservings of him, he should find, / Were deeply graven in a grateful mind."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

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Date: 1712, 1796

"And, with a stormy mind and martial heat, / March'd on, bestowing many a direful threat / On Nabal now, who single must not fall, / But he, and his own family withal."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

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Date: 1712, 1796

"How dangerous to let the Devil catch / The mind a roving from its inward watch!"

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

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Date: 1712, 1796

"What home-bred mischief on himself could fall, / Which could a worthy mind more deeply gall?"

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.