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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Author name:
"Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)"
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Religion of Author:
"Presbyterian"
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Metaphor Category:
"Impressions"
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Date: 1745
"The infant Mind is ductile like Wax; you may stamp a fair or ugly Impression upon it, Error or Knowledge, Indolence or Application, Virtue or Vice."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"[W]ere the Mind entirely under the Direction of Sense, and impressible only by such Objects as are present, and strike some of the outward Organs, we should then be precisely in the State of the Brute-Creation, and be governed solely by Instinct or Appetite, and have no Power to controul whateve...
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)