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Author name:
"Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Impressions"
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Date: 1774
"Because the impression is made quickly, it does not follow that it is strong: a susceptible memory, like a soft body, receives some impression at once, and because this impression is perceivable at once, we are at no pains to deepen it, we allow it to continue slight: when the memory is, as it ...
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)
Date: 1774
"Sometimes these perfections are united: the memory is of such a happy temperature as may be compared to wax, which receives the seal easily and strongly when it is melted, and immediately hardens and suffers it not to be effaced."
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)