Your search for
Genre:
"Prose"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"English"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Materialist or Mortalist"
AND
Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
,
"Early Seventeenth Century"
,
"Civil War and Commonwealth"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Motion"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1651, 1668
"And on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless and ambiguous words, are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities; and their end, contention and sedition, or contempt."
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)