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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Date: 1767
"Imagination is that faculty whereby the mind not only reflects on its own operations, but which assembles the various ideas conveyed to the understanding by the canal of sensation, and treasured up in the repository of the memory, compounding or disjoining them at pleasure; and which, by its pla...
preview | full record— Duff, William (1732-1815)
Date: 1783
"[W]hat Horace observes of words is equally true of thoughts ... every superfluity is lost, like water poured into a vessel already full."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)