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Date: 1734
"Mean-time the Body, which we study to soak in Pleasure like a Sponge, is of it self but a mere dead Husk, and drops off at last: and a Man reckons upon it no farther, than as a Machine for bringing him Pleasure, and would sometimes be content to change it for another Body, if he could, and does ...
preview | full record— Forbes of Pitsligo, Alexander Forbes, Lord (1678-1762)