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"Presbyterian"
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"Government"
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"Impressions"
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"1294"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1748, 1754
"[W]ere the Mind entirely under the Direction of Sense, and impressible only by such Objects as are present, and strike some of the outward Organs, we should then be precisely in the State of the Brute-Creation, and be governed solely by Instinct or Appetite, and have no Power to controul whateve...
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)