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Date: Saturday, November 3, 1750
"Some of these instructors of mankind have not contented themselves with checking the overflows of passion, and lopping the exuberance of desire, but have attempted to destroy the root as well as the branches; and not only to confine the mind within bounds, but to smooth it for ever by a dead calm."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)