Date: 1778
"Every seminary of learning may be said to be surrounded with an atmosphere of floating knowledge, where every mind may imbibe somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions."
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Date: 1782
"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain"
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Date: 1782
"Rough annoyance" may rankle in the mind
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Date: 1782
The "anxious mind" may be racked by pangs
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Date: 1782
One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way."
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Date: 1782
One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way"
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Date: w. 1782-3, 1801
All the mind, "in all her faculties refined," may taste "happiness complete"
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Date: 1785
"In cities foul example on most minds / Begets its likeness"
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