"I should have hoped that a man of his knowledge--and who has studied in the manner he [Dr. Blair] must have done--(being a professor of the Belles Lettres,) might have emancipated his mind from the shackles of system."

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Author

Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Work Title

An Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul, and Its Instinctive Sense of Good and Evil

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Dodsley
Date
1778
Metaphor
"I should have hoped that a man of his knowledge--and who has studied in the manner he [Dr. Blair] must have done--(being a professor of the Belles Lettres,) might have emancipated his mind from the shackles of system."
Metaphor in Context
I am sorry to find Dr. Blair among those, who, by having censured the Almighty's work, has been guilty of what I must ever condemn. I should have hoped that a man of his knowledge--and who has studied in the manner he must have done--(being a professor of the Belles Lettres,) might have emancipated his mind from the shackles of system.
(p. 247)
Categories
Fetters::Shackles
Provenance
Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1778).

See An Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul, and Its Instinctive Sense of Good and Evil; in Opposition to the Opinions Advanced in the Essays Introductory to Dr. Priestley's Abridgment of Dr. Hartley's Observations on Man. to Which Are Added, Strictures on Dr. Hartley's Theory; ... With an Appendix, in Answer to Dr. Priestley's Disquisitions on Matter and Spirit. by the Author of the Letters in Proof of a Particular, As Well As a General Providence, Which Were Addressed to Dr. Hawkesworth ... Under the Signature of a Christian (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1778). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/18/2005
Date of Review
05/26/2011

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