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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Metaphor Category:
"Impressions"
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"Motion"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Politics of Author:
"Whig"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Date: 1762
"A multitude of objects crowding into the mind at once, disturb the attention, and pass without making any impression, or any lasting impression."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1762
"The like false reckoning of time may proceed from an opposite state of mind. In a reverie, where ideas float at random without making any impression, time goes on unheeded and the reckoning is lost."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)