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Genre:
"Dictionary"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"A Dictionary of Quotations"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Date: 1797
"Tabula rasa. Lat.--'A shaved or smoothed tablet.'--His mind is a tabula rasa--it is a mere blank."
preview | full record— MacDonnel, David Evans (fl. 1797)