"The law of nature is sence and feeling, which everie one hath in himself, and in his conscience, whereby he discerneth between good and evil, as much as sufficeth to take from him the cloke of ignorance, in that he is reprooved even by his owne witnes."
— La Primaudaye, Pierre de (b. ca. 1545); Thomas Bowes (fl. 1586)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1586, 1589
Metaphor
"The law of nature is sence and feeling, which everie one hath in himself, and in his conscience, whereby he discerneth between good and evil, as much as sufficeth to take from him the cloke of ignorance, in that he is reprooved even by his owne witnes."
Metaphor in Context
The law is a singular reason imprinted in nature, commanding those things that are done, and forbidding the contrarie. We have both the law of nature, and the law written. The law of nature is sence and feeling, which everie one hath in himself, and in his conscience, whereby he discerneth between good and evil, as much as sufficeth to take from him the cloke of ignorance, in that he is reprooved even by his owne witnes.
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Categories
Provenance
Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 118.
Citation
Quoting from second edition. See The French Academie Wherin Is Discoursed the Institution of Maners, and Whatsoeuer Els Concerneth the Good and Happie Life of All Estates and Callings, by Preceptes of Doctrine, and Examples of the Liues of Ancient Sages and Famous Men: By Peter De La Primaudaye Esquire, Lord of the Said Place, and of Barree, One of the Ordinarie Gentlemen of the Kings Chamber: Dedicated to the Most Christian King Henrie the Third, and Newly Translated Into English by T.B. (Imprinted at London: By Edmund Bollifant for G. Bishop and Ralph Newbery, 1586). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Theme
Innate Ideas
Date of Entry
10/03/2006
