"They are, if I may say so, of the mind's own growth, the elements of knowledge, more immediate, less relative, and less dependent than sensitive knowledge, as any man will be apt to think, who compares his ideas of remembering, recollecting, bare thought, and intenseness of thought, with those of warm and hot, of cool and cold."
Letters or Essays Addressed to Alexander Pope, Esq.
At least 5 entries in ESTC (1754, 1777, 1793).<br>
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See "Letters or Essays Addressed to Alexander Pope, Esq." in the third volume of David Mallet's <u>The Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke</u>, 5 vols. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the Year 1754). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N20935">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T147520">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from the third volume of <u>The Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke</u>, 5 vols. (Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne: 1793). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FoArAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading also in the 1967 reprint of <u>The Works of Lord Bolingbroke</u>, 4 vols. (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844).