"At the same time that our young performer continues to play with great exactness this accustomed tune, she can bend her mind, and that intensely, on some other object, according with the fourth article of the preceding propositions."

— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Johnson
Date
1794
Metaphor
"At the same time that our young performer continues to play with great exactness this accustomed tune, she can bend her mind, and that intensely, on some other object, according with the fourth article of the preceding propositions."
Metaphor in Context
4. At the same time that our young performer continues to play with great exactness this accustomed tune, she can bend her mind, and that intensely, on some other object, according with the fourth article of the preceding propositions.
(p. 191)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
Zoonomia: or, The Laws of Organic Life, vol. 1 (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1794). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
09/28/2013

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.