17b
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17b
Transcription
This love for truth, which ought to be inculcated as much as possible, may be of great servis [service] to preserve them from a bad taste, which was formerly very prevalent, I mean, that for romances and fabulous tales, which by degrees extinguish the love and taste of truth, and make the mind incapable of attending to such useful and serious lectures, as speak more to the reason than the imagination — — — —
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“17b,” Reading the Commonplace, accessed June 3, 2023, http://readingthecommonplace.cassidyholahan.com/cms/items/show/80.