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"The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides"
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Date: 1785
"BOSWELL. 'But, sir,'tis like walking up and down a hill; one man will naturally do the one better than the other. A hare will run up a hill best, from her fore-legs being short; a dog down.' JOHNSON. 'Nay, sir; that is from mechanical powers. If you make mind mechanical, you may argue in that ma...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1785
"Besides, so great a mind as his cannot be moved by inferior objects: an elephant does not run and skip like lesser animals."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
