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Date: 1754
"What is the juxta-position of ideas? what is that chain which connects, by intermediate ideas that are the links of it, ideas that are remote, but figurative stile?"
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"Not yet contented with his boundless sway, / Which all perforce must outwardly obey, / He thought to throw his chain upon the mind; / Nor would he leave conjecture unconfined."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)