work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 7510,"",Reading,2013-07-08 20:16:58 UTC,"I have now, Sir, laid open to you the Faculties of the Mind, and shewn that those of most Men consist but in a mechanical Operation, as well as those of other Animals. I have too good an Opinion of your Judgment, to think that you will look upon my Proofs as trifling and nugatory; I hope, on the contrary, they will appear to you as conclusive as the nature of the Question which I have been treating, will admit. But to remove all Prejudices and Difficulties from the Minds of the Readers, I desire they will compare my Arguments with those made use of by Mr. Bickerstaff, to prove that Dr. Partridge was dead in 1708. and to judge impartially if mine are not as natural and strong as those of that ingenious Gentleman.
(p. 199)",,21533,"","""I have now, Sir, laid open to you the Faculties of the Mind, and shewn that those of most Men consist but in a mechanical Operation, as well as those of other Animals.""","",2013-07-08 20:23:53 UTC,""