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"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Work title:
"Of Memory and Imagination [from Dissertations Moral and Critical]"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Impressions"
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Date: 1783
Some philosophers "think, that the brains of old men, grown callous by length of time, are, like hard wax, equally tenacious of old impressions, and unsusceptible of new."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1783
"The human brain is a bodily substance; and sensible and permanent impressions made upon it must so far resemble those made on sand by the foot, or on wax by the seal, as to have certain shape, length, breadth, and deepness"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)