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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Author name:
"Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)"
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Date: 1748, 1754
"But when [the mind] soars above mortal Cares and mortal Pursuits, into the Regions of Divinity, and converses with the greatest and best of Beings, it spreads itself into a wider Compass, takes higher Flights in Reason and Goodness, and becomes God-like in its Air and Manners."
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