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"English"
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"Opposition (Later Pro-Pelhamite)"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Male"
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"Latitudinarian"
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Work title:
"The Covent-Garden Journal, No. 24"
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Date: March 24, 1752
"The Mind of Man is compared by Montaigne to a fertile Field, which tho' it be left entirely uncultivated, still retains all its genial Powers; but instead of producing any Thing lovely or profitable, sends forth only Weeds and wild Herbs of various Kinds, which serve to no Use or Emolument whats...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)