Conscience is "the Lord-Keeper, the Chancellor ... who keepeth a Chancery in the soule of man"

— Bourne, Immanuel (1590-1672)

Author

Bourne, Immanuel (1590-1672)

Work Title

The Anatomie of Conscience

Place of Publication
London
Date
1623
Metaphor
Conscience is "the Lord-Keeper, the Chancellor ... who keepeth a Chancery in the soule of man"
Metaphor in Context
[Conscience is] "the Lord-Keeper, the Chancellor ... who keepeth a Chancery in the soule of man"
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Categories
Government::Court::Chancery Government::Judge::Chancellor
Provenance
Reading Klinck, Dennis R. "Lord Nottingham and the Conscience of Equity." Journal of the History of Ideas 67.1 (2006): 123-47. p. 126n.18.
Date of Entry
05/29/2006

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