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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Nationality of Author:
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"Whiggish"
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"Government"
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"Machine"
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Genre:
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Date: 1748, 1777
"They know, that a human body is a mighty complicated machine: That many secret powers lurk in it, which are altogether beyond our comprehension: That to us it must often appear very uncertain in its operations: And that therefore the irregular events, which outwardly discover themselves, can be ...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)