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"A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, To My Lord ***** [collected in Characteristics]"
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Date: 1708, 1714
"For otherwise, the Pannick may have been caught; the Evidence of the Senses lost, as in a Dream; and the Imagination so inflam'd, as in a moment to have burnt up every Particle of Judgment and Reason. The combustible Matters lie prepar'd within, and ready to take fire at a Spark; but chiefly in ...
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)