The Law of Nature has often been "described and discoursed in metaphorical and allusive Expressions, such as Engravings, and Inscriptions, and the Tables of the Heart."

— Parker, Samuel (1640-1688)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by M. Flesher
Date
1681
Metaphor
The Law of Nature has often been "described and discoursed in metaphorical and allusive Expressions, such as Engravings, and Inscriptions, and the Tables of the Heart."
Metaphor in Context
the plain Account of it has been obscured by nothing more, then that it has alwaies been described and discoursed in metaphorical and allusive Expressions, such as Engravings, and Inscriptions, and the Tables of the Heart.
Provenance
Reading Yolton's Locke Dictionary (101)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1681, 1694).

A Demonstration of the Divine Authority of the Law of Nature, and of the Christian Religion. in Two Parts. by Samuel Parker, D.D. Arch-Deacon of Canterbury. (London: Printed by M. Flesher, for R. Royston, bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty, and R. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St Paul’s Church-yard, 1681).
Date of Entry
03/28/2005

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