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"Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)"
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"Scottish"
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"Population"
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"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Date: 1769
"He knew when to distract its weak brain with a tumult of incongruous and contradictory ideas: he knew when to overwhelm its feeble faculty of thinking, by pouring in a torrent of words without any ideas annexed. These throng in like city-milliners to a Mile-end assembly, while it happens to be u...
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Date: 1769
"I can assure thee, Peacock, that Richard was a prince of a very agreeable aspect, and excelled in every personal accomplishment; neither was his heart a stranger to the softer passions of tenderness and pity"
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