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"English"
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Politics of Author:
"Royalist (Pro-Stuart)"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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Author name:
"South, Robert (1634-1716)"
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"Anglican (High Church)"
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Date: 1744
"A mere existence or being is an indifferent thing, ('tis a Rasa Tabula) that may be coloured over with sin or holiness: and accordingly it receives its value from these; as a picture is esteemed not from the materials upon which it is drawn, but from the draught itself."
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Date: 1744
"Holiness elevates the worth of the being in which it is, and is of more value than the being itself. As in scarlet, the bare dye is of greater value than the cloath."
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