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"The Grub-Street Journal, No. 17"
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Date: April 30, 1730
"The spirit of the brain, distilled by the heat of the imagination, like some chemical preparations, when exposed to the air, is apt to smoke, to take fire, to crack, and bounce, to the no small disturbance of the neighbourhood."
preview | full record— Richard Russel and John Martyn