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Date: Wednesday, October 31, 1711
"You have, in my Opinion, raised a good presumptive Argument from the increasing Appetite the Mind has to Knowledge, and to the extending its own Faculties, which cannot be accomplished, as the more restrained Perfection of lower Creatures may, in the Limits of a short Life."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1781
"The mother loveth her little child; she bringeth it up on her knees; she nourisheth its body with food; she feedeth its mind with knowledge."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
