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Date: 1710, 1714
"So that, if there be no certain inspector or auditor established within us to take account of these opinions and fancies in due form and minutely to animadvert upon their several growths and habits, we are as little like to continue a day in the same will as a tree, during the summer, in the sam...
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)