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"Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)"
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"Scottish"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1774
"In this manner, as a master-builder has his materials prepared by inferiour workmen, or as a history painter is provided with his colours by the labour of others, so the faculty of invention often receives the entire ideas which it exhibits, from the inferiour faculties, and employs itself only...
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