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"Of Eloquence [from Essays Moral and Political]"
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Date: 1742
"The mind naturally continues with the same impetus or force, which it has acquired by its motion; as a vessel, once impelled by the oars, carries on its course for some time, when the original impulse is suspended."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)