"Matters that are recommended to our thoughts by any of our passions take possession of our minds with a kind of authority, and will not be kept out or dislodged, but, as if the passion that rules were, for the time, the sheriff of the place, and came with all the posse, the understanding is seized and taken with the object it introduces, as if it had a legal right to be alone considered there."
Of the Conduct of the Understanding
15 entries in ESTC (1706, 1741, 1753, 1754, 1762, 1763, 1781, 1782, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1800).<br>
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See John Locke, <u>Posthumous Works of John Locke</u> (London: Printed by W.B. for A. and J. Churchill, 1706). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T148785">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=o0EVAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>Some Thoughts Concerning Education and Of the Conduct of the Understanding</u>, eds. Ruth W. Grant and Nathan Tarcov (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1996).