"We have all of us different Souls, and our Souls have Affections as different from one another, as our outward Faces are in their Lineaments."
— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for John Hooke
Date
1725
Metaphor
"We have all of us different Souls, and our Souls have Affections as different from one another, as our outward Faces are in their Lineaments."
Metaphor in Context
We have all of us different Souls, and our Souls have Affections as different from one another, as our outward Faces are in their Lineaments. Each Man contains a little World within himself, and every Heart is a new World. We cannot therefore attain to a perfect Knowledge of human Nature, by studying others or our selves alone, but by studying both. ’Tis this Knowledge which sets the Philosopher above the Peasant, and gives the Preference to one Author above another. This Knowledge has a Force, something like to that of Magic Charms: by the help of it one, who is Master of the Science, can turn Men inside outwards, and expose them to the Eyes of the World, as they really are, and not as they wou’d fain appear to be. By the help of this Knowledge an intelligent Writer can form to his Reader the most agreeable, most instructive Entertainment that can possibly be desir’d; transport him, with the greatest Ease imaginable, from the Solitude of his Chamber to Places of the greatest Concourse; there to see and learn the Virtues of Men; there to see and shun their Vices, without any danger of being corrupted by the Contagion of a real Commerce.
(p. 32)
(p. 32)
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Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1725, 1756).
See Henry Gally, "A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings", from his Translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (London: Printed for John Hooke, 1725).<Link to ESTC>
Reading printed edition from The Augustan Reprint Society (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1952).
Text from Project Gutenberg, by David Starner, Louise Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team <Link to PGDP>.
See Henry Gally, "A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings", from his Translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (London: Printed for John Hooke, 1725).<Link to ESTC>
Reading printed edition from The Augustan Reprint Society (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1952).
Text from Project Gutenberg, by David Starner, Louise Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team <Link to PGDP>.
Date of Entry
09/23/2013
