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Date: 1785
"I beg leave to say something upon second sight, of which I have related two instances, as they impressed my mind at the time."
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Date: 1785
"To entertain a visionary notion that one sees a distant or future event, may be called superstition; but the correspondence of the fact or event with such an impression on the fancy, though certainly very wonderful, if proved, has no more connection with superstition, than magnetism or electrici...
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Date: 1785
"The mind of man can bear a certain pressure; but there is a point when it can bear no more."
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Date: 1785
"I answered I would not; and he applauded my setting such a value on an accession of new images in my mind."
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Date: 1785
"To apply his great mind to minute particulars, is wrong: it is like taking an immense balance, such as is kept on quays for weighing cargoes of ships, to weigh a guinea. I knew I had neat little scales, which would do better; and that his attention to every thing which falls in his way, and his ...
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