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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Metaphor Category:
"Machine"
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Author name:
"Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1774
"A multitude of ideas, collected by such an imagination, form a confused chaos, in which inconsistent conceptions are often mixt, conceptions so unsuitable and disproportioned, that they can no more be combined into one regular work, than a number of wheels taken from different watches, can be un...
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)
Date: 1774
"If it were not employed in this, genius must go on like a mere machine, and a person should have no power over it after it were once set in motion."
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)