"For, though Man's Soul, and Body are not onely one natural Engine (as some have thought) of whose motions of all sorts, there may be as certain an accompt given, as those of a Watch or a Clock"
— Sprat, Thomas (bap. 1635, d. 1713)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T.R. for J. Martyn
Date
1667
Metaphor
"For, though Man's Soul, and Body are not onely one natural Engine (as some have thought) of whose motions of all sorts, there may be as certain an accompt given, as those of a Watch or a Clock"
Metaphor in Context
For, though Man's Soul, and Body are not onely one natural Engine (as some have thought) of whose motions of all sorts, there may be as certain an accompt given, as those of a Watch or a Clock: yet by long studying of the Spirits, of the Bloud, of the Nourishment, of the parts ... there, without question, be very neer ghesses made, even at the more exalted, and immediate Actions of the Soul; and that too, without destroying its Spiritual and Immortal Being.
(pp. 82-3)
(pp. 82-3)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Samuel L. Macey's Clocks and the Cosmos: Time in Western Life and Thought. Archon Books: Hamden, CT, 1980. p. 83.
Citation
Macey, Samuel L. Clocks and the Cosmos: Time in Western Life and Thought. Archon Books: Hamden, CT, 1980. p. 83.
Date of Entry
12/13/2006
