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"Prose"
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"English"
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Work title:
"Hermes or a Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar"
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"Early Modern"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1771
"Now as our Feet in vain venture to walk upon the River, till the Frost bind the Current, and harden the yielding Surface; so does the SOUL in vain seek to exert its higher Powers, the Powers I mean of REASON and INTELLECT, till IMAGINATION first fix the fluency of SENSE, and thus provide ...
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)