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"XLIII. Ignorance of Ourselves [from Reliquiae Juveniles. Miscellaneous Thoughts, in Prose and Verse, on Natural, Moral, and Divine Subjects]"
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"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Machine"
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Date: 1734
"We see and feel these limbs, and this flesh of ours; we are acquainted at least with the outside of this animal machine, and sometimes call it ourselves, though philosophy and reason would rather say, it is our house or tabernacle, because we possess it, or dwell in it: it is our en...
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