“1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part I, Section III. Of the Ideas of the Memory and the Imagination, We find ⟳ by experience ⟳, that when any impression has been present ⟳ with the mind ⟳, it again makes its appearance there as an idea; and this it may do after two different ways: either when in its new appearance it retains a considerable degree of its first vivacity, and is somewhat intermediate betwixt an impression and an idea: or when it entirely loses that vivacity, and is a perfect idea.”

“The one entertained me with her vivacity when I was gay, the other with her sense ⟳ when I was serious.”

“In the name ⟳ of truth and common sense ⟳, why should not one woman acknowledge that she can take ⟳ more exercise than another? or, in other words, that she has a sound ⟳ constitution; and why to damp innocent vivacity, is she darkly to be told, that men will draw ⟳ conclusions which she little thinks of?”

“Some secret sorrow, or the brooding spirit of some moody passion, had quenched the light ⟳ and ingenuous vivacity of youth in a countenance singularly fitted to display both […]”

“[…] an extraordinary observer might have ⟳ seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have ⟳ concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child […]”

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