"And what is Education, for the most part, but stocking a Child's Brain with Chains of Images?"
— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
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Date
September 17, 1726
Metaphor
"And what is Education, for the most part, but stocking a Child's Brain with Chains of Images?"
Metaphor in Context
No one will deny Education, generally speaking, to influence every Man in the part he is to act in the World. And what is Education, for the most part, but stocking a Child's Brain with Chains of Images? Horace somewhere or other introduces a Carpenter deliberating with himself whether he should make a Joint-Stool or a God, out of an old Block he was going to work upon. And do not most Fathers do the same with their Children? Now pray, what is this but acting from a fortuitous Concourse of Images? This Passage of the Poet calls to my mind a Story which I think extremely applicable to our present Argument.
(pp. 190-1)
(pp. 190-1)
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Citation
At least 4 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1726, 1729, 1734).
The Dublin Weekly Journal ran from 3 April 1725 to 25 March 1727.
Text from James Arbuckle, A Collection of Letters and Essays on Several Subjects: Lately Publish'd in the Dublin Journal. In Two Volumes (London: Printed by J. Darby and T. Browne, 1729). <Link to vol. 2 in Google Books>
Republished as Hibernicus's Letters: or, a Philosophical Miscellany (London: Printed for J. Clark, T. Hatchet, E. Symon, 1734). <Link to ECCO>
The Dublin Weekly Journal ran from 3 April 1725 to 25 March 1727.
Text from James Arbuckle, A Collection of Letters and Essays on Several Subjects: Lately Publish'd in the Dublin Journal. In Two Volumes (London: Printed by J. Darby and T. Browne, 1729). <Link to vol. 2 in Google Books>
Republished as Hibernicus's Letters: or, a Philosophical Miscellany (London: Printed for J. Clark, T. Hatchet, E. Symon, 1734). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/08/2013
