Your search for
Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
,
"Early Modern"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Garden"
,
"Uncategorized"
AND
Politics of Author:
"From Rockinghamite Whig to Anti-Jacobin"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1756
"Not only their Understandings labour continually, which is the severest Labour, but their Hearts are torn by the worst, most troublesome, and insatiable of all Passions, by Avarice, by Ambition, by Fear and Jealousy. No part of the Mind has Rest. Power gradually extirpates from the Mind every hu...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)