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"Scottish"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
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Author name:
"Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)"
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"Visual Arts"
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Date: 1745
"And, in my Opinion, we have as much need of the Hand of Culture to call forth our latent Powers, to direct their Exercise; in fine, to shape and polish us into Men, as the unformed Block has of the Craver or Statuary's Skill, to draw it out of that rude State, into the Form and Proportions of a ...
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