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A new voyage round the world (1697)
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The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
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I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel Kant
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Born:
September 5, 1651
Died:
1715
(aged 63)
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