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Work title:
"Essays on Several Subjects Written by Sir Tho. Pope Blount"
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"Body"
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Date: 1691
"Trade is the very Life and Soul of the Universe, which, like the Vital Blood in the Body, Circulates to the Health, and well-being of the whole, and when by the failure of Industry, there is a stop put to Commerce, it often proves as fatal to the Body Politick, as the stagnating of the Blood doe...
preview | full record— Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir (1649-1697)
Date: 1691
"Now Reading may very properly be compar'd to Eating, and Thinking to Digesting, as therefore to one Hours Eating, we allow many hours for Digesting; so to one hours Reading, we should assign Sufficient time for Meditating, and Digesting, what we have Read."
preview | full record— Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir (1649-1697)
Date: 1691
"So the other be of no less Prejudice to the understanding, by occasioning Diseases of the Mind."
preview | full record— Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir (1649-1697)
