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"Chrysal; or the Adventures of a Guinea"
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Work title:
"Chrysal; or the Adventures of a Guinea"
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Date: 1760
"I found the spirit very busy, though I thought somewhat odly employed: she was running over a number of niches, or impressions, on the fibres of the brain, some of which I observed she renewed with such force, that she almost effaced others, which she passed over untouched, though interspersed a...
preview | full record— Johnstone, Charles (c.1719-c.1800)
Date: 1760
"This place, where we are, is the seat of memory; and these traces, which you see me running over thus, are the impressions made on the brain by a communication of the impressions made on the senses by external objects."
preview | full record— Johnstone, Charles (c.1719-c.1800)
