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Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"But this obscurity sometimes proceeds from a mixture of light and darkness in the author's mind; from a partial ray which strikes upon an angle, instead of spreading itself over the surface of an object."
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