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" That state, in which human nature shoots wild and free, though unfit for other improvements, certainly encourages the high exertions of fancy and passion. "
The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. To which are prefixed ... - Page 50
by Ossian - 1805
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Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-century Britain

John T. Lynch - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 244 pages
..."primitivists," language change is a function of cultural change. "In the infancy of societies," he explains, "men live scattered and dispersed, in the midst of...objects, to them new and strange; their wonder and surprize are frequently excited." This "wonder and surprize" shape their language: "As their feelings...
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