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Date: Monday, March 3, 1712
"A Vice of a more lively Nature were a more desirable Tyrant than this Rust of the Mind, which gives a Tincture of its Nature to every Action of ones Life."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: Monday, March 3, 1712
"Death brings all Persons back to an Equality; and this Image of it, this Slumber of the Mind, leaves no Difference between the greatest Genius and the meanest Understanding: A Faculty of doing things remarkably praise-worthy thus concealed, is of no more use to the Owner, than a Heap of Gold to ...
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)