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Date: 1754, 1793

"All-perfect Wisdom, on each living soul, / Engrav'd this mandate, 'to preserve their frame, And hold entire the gen'ral orb of being.'"

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

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Date: 1771, 1776

"'Could History man's secret heart reveal, / 'And what imports a heaven-born mind to learn, / 'Her transcripts to explore what bosom would not yearn!"

— Beattie, James (1735-1803)

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Date: 1789

"[T]he important overthrow of the common enemy of our religious liberty ... must be engraven on our hearts in the very deepest characters of gratitude and praise"

— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.