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"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"Disquisitions on Several Subjects"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1782
All "ideas follow each other in our minds in a regular and uniform succession, not unlike the tickings of a clock; and by that means all objects are presented to our imaginations in the same progressive manner: and if any vary much from that destined pace, by too rapid, or too slow a motion, they...
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)