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Date: 1710, 1714
"Thus I contend with Fancy and Opinion; and search the Mint and Foundery of Imagination. For here the Appetites and Desires are fabricated. Hence they derive their Privilege and Currency. If I can stop the Mischief here, and prevent false Coinage; I am safe."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)