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Date: From Saturday June 3. to Tuesday June 6. 1710
"The Mind in Infancy is, methinks, like the Body in Embrio, and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any Mark with which a Child is born is to be taken away by any future Application."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)