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"Male"
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Work title:
"To the Right Honourable John Earl of Stair, Before the Election of Sixteen Peers for Scotland, Anno Dom. 1722."
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Light"
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Date: 1729
"Reason exerts her pure, celestial, Rays, / To guide our Steps thro' Errors weary Maze: / But upstart Passions mount her rightful Throne, / And blindly push our vanquish'd Judgment on."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)