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Date: 1755
"Thoughts come crouding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject."
preview | full record— Dryden [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on."
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"When she rates things, and moves from ground to ground, / The name of reason she obtains by this; / But when reason she the truth has found, / And standeth fixed, she understanding is."
preview | full record— Davies [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
