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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"Letters by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield written to his Son Philip Stanhope Esq."
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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"War"
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Date: 1774
"When they come to be a little better acquainted with themselves, and with their own species, they discover that plain right reason is, nine times in ten, the fettered and shackled attendant of the triumph of the heart and the passions; and, consequently, they address themselves nine times in ten...
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)