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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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"Prose"
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Date: 1785
"I say, when we consider such extravagancies of many of the most acute writers on this subject, we may be apt to think the whole to be only a dream of fanciful men, who have entangled themselves in cobwebs spun out of their own brain."
preview | full record— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
Date: 1789
"We have already hinted, that for the same, or similar reasons, none of the ordinary organs of sense are qualified to receive or communicate distinct impressions, till the brain, the common emporium of them all, has acquired those properties which must fit it for its arduous offices; and, as in t...
preview | full record— Couper, Robert (1750-1818)