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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Latitudinarian"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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"Royalist Sympathies"
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"Plant"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Date: 1665
"And, as the Exercise, I would perswade, will help to keep us from Idleness, so will it, to preserve us from harbouring evil Thoughts, which there is no such way to keep out of the Soul, as to keep her taken up with good ones; as Husbandmen, to rid a piece of rank Land of Weeds, do often find it ...
preview | full record— Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)