Your search for
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"English"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Materialist or Mortalist"
AND
Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
,
"Early Modern"
,
"Civil War and Commonwealth"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Writing"
,
"Animals"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
Date: 1651, 1668
"Potent men, digest hardly any thing that setteth up a power to bridle their affections; and learned men, any thing that discovereth their errors, and thereby lesseneth their authority: whereas the common people's minds, unless they be tainted with dependance on the potent, or scribbled over with...
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)