"Conscience is the Royalty and Prerogative of every Private man. He is absolute in his own Breast, and accountable to no Earthly Power, for that which passes only betwixt God and Him."
— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Tonson
Date
1687
Metaphor
"Conscience is the Royalty and Prerogative of every Private man. He is absolute in his own Breast, and accountable to no Earthly Power, for that which passes only betwixt God and Him."
Metaphor in Context
Conscience is the Royalty and Prerogative of every Private man. He is absolute in his own Breast, and accountable to no Earthly Power, for that which passes only betwixt God and Him.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Michael McKeon's. The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. p. 40
Theme
Inner and Outer
Date of Entry
06/07/2006
