"No man was ever yet so void of sense, / As to debate the right of self-defence; / A principle so grafted in the mind, / With nature born, and does like nature bind."
— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1701, 1703
Metaphor
"No man was ever yet so void of sense, / As to debate the right of self-defence; / A principle so grafted in the mind, / With nature born, and does like nature bind."
Metaphor in Context
No man was ever yet so void of sense,
As to debate the right of self-defence;
A principle so grafted in the mind,
With nature born, and does like nature bind:
Twisted with reason and with nature too;
As neither one nor t'other can undo.
(Part II, p. 48, ll. 828-33)
As to debate the right of self-defence;
A principle so grafted in the mind,
With nature born, and does like nature bind:
Twisted with reason and with nature too;
As neither one nor t'other can undo.
(Part II, p. 48, ll. 828-33)
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Citation
At least 56 entries in ESTC (1701, 1702, 1703, 1704, 1708, 1710, 1711, 1713, 1716, 1717, 1721, 1728, 1730, 1731, 1733, 1740, 1743, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1754, 1755, 1765, 1767, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1784, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1795).
See The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr. ([London?]: [s.n.], 1701). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See also A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-Man. Corrected By Himself. (London: Printed, and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, 1703). <Link to LION>
Over 20 editions in Defoe's lifetime. Also issued as part of: A Collection of the Best English Poetry, by Several Hands, London, 1717. See also 1731 printing "Corrected and enlarg'd by the author" <Link to ESTC>
Reading Daniel Defoe. The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings. Ed. P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens (New York: Penguin Books, 1997).
See The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr. ([London?]: [s.n.], 1701). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See also A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-Man. Corrected By Himself. (London: Printed, and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, 1703). <Link to LION>
Over 20 editions in Defoe's lifetime. Also issued as part of: A Collection of the Best English Poetry, by Several Hands, London, 1717. See also 1731 printing "Corrected and enlarg'd by the author" <Link to ESTC>
Reading Daniel Defoe. The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings. Ed. P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens (New York: Penguin Books, 1997).
Date of Entry
06/08/2010
