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Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Politics of Author:
"Royalist Sympathies"
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Work title:
"Reflections upon the Subject"
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Date: 1665
"And, as the Exercise, I would perswade, will help to keep us from Idleness, so will it, to preserve us from harbouring evil Thoughts, which there is no such way to keep out of the Soul, as to keep her taken up with good ones; as Husbandmen, to rid a piece of rank Land of Weeds, do often find it ...
preview | full record— Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)