,
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Population"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Dissenter or Nonconformist"
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Date: 1702
"Vice is a Thief, a Traytor in the Mind, / Assassinates the Vitals of Mankind."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1727
"For I cannot agree that the Soul is in the Body, as in a Prison; but rather that, like a rich Nobleman, he is pleas'd to inhabit a fine Country Seat or Palace of his own Building, where he resolves to live and enjoy himself, and does so, 'till by the Fate of things his fine Palace being over-tur...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1727
"Conscience, indeed, is a frightful Apparition itself, and I make no Question but it oftentimes haunts an oppressing Criminal into Restitution, and is a Ghost to him sleeping or waking: nor is it the least Testimony of an invisible World that there is such a Drummer as that in the Soul, that can ...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)


