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"Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)"
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Date: 1748, 1754
"In this Light, the Administration itself, nay, every Act of it, becomes an Object of Affection, the Evil disappears, or is converted into a Balm which both heals and nourishes the Mind."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"[I]t may be said of most Men, that their intellectual Organs are as much shut up and secluded from proper Nourishment and Exercise in that little Circle to which they are confined, as the bodily Organs are in the Womb."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)