"Ignoraunce [...] maketh him unmeete metall for the impressions of vertue."
— Fleming, Abraham (c. 1552-1607)
Work Title
Date
1576
Metaphor
"Ignoraunce [...] maketh him unmeete metall for the impressions of vertue."
Metaphor in Context
Ignoraunce..maketh him unmeete metall for the impressions of vertue.
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Categories
Provenance
Looking up "impression" in the OED
Citation
Fleming, Abraham. A Panoplie of Epistles, Or, a looking Glasse for the unlearned. Conteyning perfecte plattforme of inditing letters of all sorts, to persons of al estates and degrees, as well our superiours, as also our equalls and inferiours: used of the best and the eloquentest Rhetoricians that have lived in all ages, and have beene famous in that facultie. London, 1576. Compiled and translated in parts by Fleming.
Date of Entry
05/20/2005
Date of Review
09/27/2006
