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Metaphor Category:
"Dress"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Work title:
"An Essay on the Distinction Between the Soul and Body of Man"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Politics of Author:
"Whiggish"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Date: 1781
"So that all material objects, in themselves, and to each other, are dark and naked: to the mind alone are they cloathed in all the pleasing variety of sensible qualities."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1781
"Mind, like a bride from a nobler family, enriches matter by its union, and brings as a dower, possessions before unknown. Henceforth matter appears cloathed in a gayer and richer garment; and the fruits of this union are a new progeny, to which matter, confining its alliance to its own family, c...
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)