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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Work title:
"Occasional Reflections Upon Several Subjects"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Date: 1665
"And indeed, the Thoughts of many a Person, are oftentimes so active, and restless, that something or other they must, and will perpetually be doing; and like unruly Souldiers, if you have not a care to employ them well, they will employ themselves ill."
preview | full record— Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)