Your search for
Genre:
"Prose"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Population"
,
"War"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"English"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
AND
Politics of Author:
"Royalist (Pro-Stuart)"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
Date: 1655
"Therefore it belongs to the will as to the Generall of an Army to moove the other powers of the soul to their acts, and among the rest the understanding also, by applying it and reducing its power into act."
preview | full record— Bramhall, John (1594-1663)
Date: 1682
"We are carry'd Up to the Heavens, and Down again into the Deep, by Turns; so long as we are govern'd by our Affections, and not by Virtue: Passion, and Reason, are a kind of Civil War within us; and as the one, or the other has Dominion, we are either Good, or Bad."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)