"If thoughts could occupy space, we might be tempted to think, that we had laid them up in certain cells or repositories, to remain there till we had occasion for them."
Of Memory and Imagination [from Dissertations Moral and Critical]
At least 2 entries in ESTC (1783).<br>
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Beattie, James. <u>Dissertations Moral and Critical</u> (London: Printed for Strahan, Cadell, and Creech, 1783). Facsimile-Reprint: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1970. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xP5BAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;