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Date: 1785
"Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind."
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Date: 1787
"But his imagination [Ignatius Sancho's] is wild and extravagant, escapes incessantly from every restraint of reason and taste, and, in the course of its vagaries, leaves a tract of thought as incoherent and eccentric, as is the course of a meteor through the sky."
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