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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Metaphor Category:
"Container"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Work title:
"Of Memory and Imagination [from Dissertations Moral and Critical]"
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Date: 1783
"If thoughts could occupy space, we might be tempted to think, that we had laid them up in certain cells or repositories, to remain there till we had occasion for them."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1783
"[W]hat Horace observes of words is equally true of thoughts ... every superfluity is lost, like water poured into a vessel already full."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1783
"These are some of the general heads, under which may be arranged the manifold treasures of human Memory."
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