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"Prose"
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"A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, To My Lord ***** [collected in Characteristics]"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1708, 1714
"'Twas a sign that this Philosopher believ'd there was a good Stock of Visionary Spirit originally in Human Nature."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1708, 1714
"Something there will be of Extravagance and Fury, when the Ideas or Images receiv'd are too big for the narrow human Vessel to contain."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)