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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Metaphor Category:
"Body"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work ids:
"5586"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Date: 1783
"The human brain is a bodily substance; and sensible and permanent impressions made upon it must so far resemble those made on sand by the foot, or on wax by the seal, as to have certain shape, length, breadth, and deepness"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1783
"What toil and perseverance, in cultivating the bodily powers, must it require, to qualify the tumbler for those feats of activity, with which he astonishes mankind! [... ]Were we to take equal pains in the improvement of our intellectual and moral nature, which are surely not less susceptible of...
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)