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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"French Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: 1789
"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Date: 1789
"In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire [pain and pleasure]: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while"
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)