eye of the mind

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If you can read with the eye of the mind the inscription it bears, you can distinctly see these words: To all to whom this may come: Greeting.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)

Franklin never saw ghosts, except such as arise out of conscience into the eye of the mind.

From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop

Where we have a theory so completely established as the mechanical theory of heat it seems quite fair to have recourse to the eye of the senses to aid the eye of the mind.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul

The bodily eye, the organ for apprehending material objects, is provided by nature; the eye of the mind, of which the object is truth, is the work of discipline and habit.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

Imagery makes palpable to the bodily eye the abstract thought seen only by the eye of the mind; and all orators aim at giving vividness to their thinking by thus making their thoughts visible.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel