"Monsieur Des Cartes slept much, or at least his awakening was never forced, so soon as ever he perceived himself dis-ingaged from sleep, he studied meditating in bed, but half his body and raised now and then, to commit his thoughts to writing. This is the reason why he often continued th Hours, nay, sometimes twelve in his meaning "
(Adrien Baillet's Life of Monsieur Des Cartes, 1693)
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