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1685.  Cotton, trans. Montaigne, I. 233. Examples have demonstrated to us that … the study of sciences does more soften and untemper the courages of men than any way fortifie and incite them.

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1758.  Reid, trans. Macquer’s Chem., I. 65. By the same operation Steel may be untempered.

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