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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Religion of Author:
"Latitudinarian"
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Politics of Author:
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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)