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"Of Memory and Imagination [from Dissertations Moral and Critical]"
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Date: 1783
"[W]hat Horace observes of words is equally true of thoughts ... every superfluity is lost, like water poured into a vessel already full."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)