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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)
Date: Saturday, November 3, 1750
"Yet it cannot be with justice denied, that these men have been very useful monitors, and have left many proofs of strong reason, deep penetration, and accurate attention to the affairs of life, which it is now our business to separate from the foam of a boiling imagination, and to apply judiciou...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
