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Date: 1654
"We often see stones hang with drops not from any innate moisture, but from a thick air about them; so may we sometime see marble-hearted sinners seem full of contrition, but it is not from any dew of grace within but from some black clouds that impends them, which produces these sweating effects."
preview | full record— Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
Date: 1774
"The attraction of the magnet is only exerted upon similar particles; and to taste the beauties of Homer it is requisite to partake his fire: but every one can relish the author who represents common life, because every one can refer to the originals from whence his ideas were taken"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
