Your search for
Politics of Author:
"Jacobin Sympathies"
AND
Genre:
"Prose"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"English"
AND
Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
,
"Industrial Revolution"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Government"
returned 3 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1775
"Also those phenomena in nature which depend upon gravity, electricity, &c. are no less various and complex; and the more we know of nature, the more particular facts, and particular laws, we are able to reduce to simple and general laws: insomuch that now it does not appear impossible, but that,...
preview | full record— Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Date: 1789
"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Date: 1789
"In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire [pain and pleasure]: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while"
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)