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Genre:
"Prose"
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"Translation"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus"
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Literary Period:
"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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"Light"
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Date: 1788-89
"The former [Platonic philosophy] fills the soul with intelligible light, breaks her lethargic fetters, and elevates her to the principle of things; the latter [Lockean philosophy] clouds the intellectual eye of the soul, by increasing her oblivion, strengthens her corporeal bands, and hurries he...
preview | full record— Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)