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"Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres"
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Date: 1783
"Although there may be some few exceptions, yet in general it holds, that when the bent of the mind is wholly directed towards some one object, exclusive, in a manner, of others, there is the fairest prospect of eminence in that, whatever it be. The rays must converge to a point, in order to glow...
preview | full record— Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)