"That natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls, in their first origin, are supposed to be stampt with"

— Bentley [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Author

Bentley [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Work Title

Signature [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]
Date
1755
Metaphor
"That natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls, in their first origin, are supposed to be stampt with"
Metaphor in Context
That natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls, in their first origin, are supposed to be stampt with, we have no need of disputes against atheism.
Categories
Writing::Signature Writing::Signature
Provenance
Reading Johnson's Dictionary
Citation
Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.
Theme
Innate Ideas
Date of Entry
05/12/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.