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Religion of Author:
"Presbyterian"
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Metaphor Category:
"Motion"
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Work title:
"Books"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1748, 1754
"But when [the mind] soars above mortal Cares and mortal Pursuits, into the Regions of Divinity, and converses with the greatest and best of Beings, it spreads itself into a wider Compass, takes higher Flights in Reason and Goodness, and becomes God-like in its Air and Manners."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)