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Date: 1783
"Besides, when the senses have nothing to employ them, the mind is left (if I may so speak) a prey to its own thoughts; the Imagination becomes unmanageable; the nerves lose their wonted vigour"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1783
"I shall only remark, that too much study will in time shatter the strongest nerves, and make the soul a prey to melancholy. "
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
