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"The Post-boy rob'd of his Mail: or, the Pacquet Broke Open"
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Date: 1692
"I have, 'tis true, but to no purpose, retir'd to Oxford, to see if Books, and learned men would bring me any Relief, but I find Philosophy is of no power to root out a Passion that is once admitted, whatever it may to defend us from an Invasion."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)