It is by the senses that "the Ideas of external sensible Objects are first conveyed into the Imagination; and Reason or the pure Intellect ... operates upon those Ideas, and upon them, Only after they are so lodged in that common Receptacle"
The Procedure, Extent, and Limits of Human Understanding
3 entries in ESTC (1728, 1729, 1736).<br>
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Peter Browne, <u>The Procedure, Extent, and Limits of Human Understanding</u> (London: Printed for William Inny, 1728). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T130658">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://archive.org/details/procedureextentl00browuoft">Link to Internet Archive</a>&gt;