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Genre:
"Prose"
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Author ids:
"1424"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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"Scottish"
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Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1770
"A metaphysician, exploring the recesses of the human heart, hath just such a chance for finding the truth, as a man with microscopic eyes would have, for, finding the road."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1779
"Our affections are indeed the medium through which we may be said to survey ourselves, and every thing else; and whatever be our inward frame, we are apt to perceive a wonderful congeniality in the world without us"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)