Your search for
Politics of Author:
"Tory"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Work title:
"Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher"
AND
Literary Period:
"Augustan"
,
"Early Modern"
,
"Eighteenth Century"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Machine"
,
"Physics"
,
"Uncategorized"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
Date: 1732
"Gorgias hath gone further, demonstrating man to be a piece of clock-work or machine; and that thought or reason are the same thing as the impulse of one ball against another."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)