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Light
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Date: 1700
"Affliction, the sincerest Friend, the frankest Monitor, the best Instructer and indeed the only useful School that Women are ever put to, rouses her understanding, opens her Eyes, fixes her Attention, and diffuses such a Light, such a Joy into her Mind, as not only Informs her better, but Entert...
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666–1731)
Date: 1700
"She will discern a time when her Sex shall be no bar to the best Employments, the highest Honor; a time when that distinction, now so much us'd to her Prejudice, shall be no more, but provided she is not wanting to her self, her Soul shall shine as bright as the greatest Heroe's."
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666–1731)
Date: 1702
It is "most consonant to Reason to think this [LIfe] is only a State of Probation, and that the dispensation of Rewards and Punishments, is reserv'd for a Future Life; there being no other way to reconcile the partial distribution of things here, to that order which we know is agreeable to the Di...
preview | full record— Trotter, Catherine, later Cockburn, (1674?-1749)
