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Date: 1754
"If we consider them like materials, for so they may be considered likewise, employed to raise the fabric of our intellectual system, they will appear like mud, and straw, and lath, materials fit to erect some frail, and homely cottage, but not of substance, nor value sufficient for the construct...
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)