"When the soul is engrossed by any violent passion, when the imagination forms a lively picture of the charms of a favourite object, represents it as the idol of the heart, adorns it with every attractive grace, and suffers it to make a deep impression on the mind; by degrees the charms, in which we have cloathed and decked it, dazzle the sight, and impose even on ourselves: then wholly engaged thereby, we are insensible to every other object, and misled fo these phantoms, we take our visions for realities."
A Philosophical Essay on Man
3 entries in ESTC (1773, 1775).<br>
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<u>A Philosophical Essay on Man: Being an Attempt to Investigate the Principles and Laws of the Reciprocal Influence of the Soul on the Body</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Ridley; and T. Payne, 1773)
&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004807815.0001.002">Link to Vol. II in ECCO_TCP</a>&gt;