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"Yorick's Meditations: Upon Various Interesting and Important Subjects"
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Date: 1760
"What's a meditation, but a collection of the reveries of a mind; and what is of a more moving nature than the mind--so far from thinking in train, it flies from one subject to another, with a rapidity inexpressible--from meditating upon the planetary system, it can with ease deviate into a medit...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) [attrib.]
Date: 1760
"Digressions too take place in philosophy; and oft we find the mind of a philosopher turns aside in a curve, flies off in a tangent, or springs up in a spiral line."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) [attrib.]
