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"Reason [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1755
"When she rates things, and moves from ground to ground, / The name of reason she obtains by this; / But when reason she the truth has found, / And standeth fixed, she understanding is."
preview | full record— Davies [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]