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"Spectator, No. 420 [Pleasures of the Imagination]"
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Date: Wednesday, July 2, 1712
"Our Reason can pursue a Particle of Matter through an infinite Variety of Divisions, but the Fancy soon loses sight of it, and feels in it self a kind of Chasm, that wants to be filled with Matter of a more sensible Bulk."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Wednesday, July 2, 1712
"Perhaps there may not be room in the Brain for such a variety of Impressions, or the Animal Spirits may be incapable of figuring them in such a manner, as is necessary to excite so very large or very minute Ideas."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
