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"From Whig to Tory"
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"An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions"
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Date: 1727
"Homer's Notion of the State of the Dead, was something like the ancient Philosophy of the Aegyptians, which gave the Soul a Shape like the Body, and that it was only a Receptacle of the Mind; the Mind they made to be the sublime and superior Part, and that only."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)