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"Seventeenth Century"
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Author name:
"Pomfret, John (1667-1702)"
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Date: 1699
"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair unwritten blank remain'd."
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Date: 1699
"Reason has little now to do but prove / That some most perfect Being rules above, / And this by little Inference we find: / 'Tis plain; 'tis bright, 'tis written on the Mind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700
"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair Unwritten Blank remain'd; / For now, who Truth from Falshood wou'd discern; / must first disrobe the Mind, and all Unlearn."
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