Date: 1697
"The Soul is placed in the Body like a rough Diamond and must be polish'd, or the lustre of it will never appear."
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Date: May 10, 1704
"By the Pulpit are adumbrated the writings of our modern saints in Great Britain, as they have spiritualised and refined them from the dross and grossness of sense and human reason."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)