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"Conversion to Catholicism"
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"The Discourses"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"Learning ought to be infus'd into the Scholar like spirits into a Bottle, by little and little, for whosoever attempts to pour in all at once, may in all likelihood spill a great part, and in a great measure fill the Vessel with Wind and Air."
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)