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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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"Population"
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Date: 1787
"Those desires which heretofore were only loose from their slavery in sleep, when he was yet under the laws and his father, when under democratic government, now when he is tyrannized over by his passions, shall be equally as loose when he is awake, and from no horrid slaughter or deed shall he a...
preview | full record— Adams, John (1735-1826)
Date: 1787
"He then seats in that throne the avaricious disposition, and makes it a mighty king within himself, decked out with Persian crowns, bracelets, and scepters."
preview | full record— Adams, John (1735-1826)