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"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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"Second Remarks upon an Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, In a Letter Address'd to the Author Being a Vindication of the First Remarks, Against the Answer of Mr. Lock, At the End of His Reply to the Lord Bishop of Worcester."
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Fire"
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Date: 1697
The soul may be a "Modification or Power of the Body" so that it eventually ceases to act, "either perishing, as a Flame when the Fewel is spent; or returning to its Fountain, whatsoever it was"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"If a Flame be extinct, the same cannot return, but a new one may be made."
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)