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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1750, 1752
"Whether the Mind, like Soil, doth not by Disuse grow stiff; and whether Reasoning and Study be not like stirring and dividing the Glebe?"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1750, 1752
"Whether even those Parts of Academical Learning which are quite forgotten, may not have improved and enriched the Soil, like those Vegetables which are raised, not for themselves, but plowed in for a Dressing of Land?"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)