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"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Date: 1774
"Many people lose a great deal of time by reading: for they read frivolous and idle books, such as the absurd romances of the two last centuries; where characters, that never existed, are insipidly displayed, and sentiments that were never felt, pompously described: the Oriental ravings and extra...
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1790
"A contented mind is a continual feast."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)