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Metaphor Category:
"Machine"
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Work title:
"The Discourses"
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Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"Let us but consider a little the Receptacles of Images, the Regions of Imagination, the curious formation in all the Instruments of Sense; to which we may add the activity and subtlety of the Spirits, the delicate Contexture of the Nerves, the various Articulations of the Voice, the Harmony of F...
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)
Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"No less inquisitive have they been about the first Principle of Life, which sets the Wheels of this curious Engine on Work."
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)
Date: 1761
"The Body is the Machine which the Soul actuates and directs to perpetrate its Desires, so that the [GREEK CHARACTERS] as Paul stiles him, the Man whose Soul is unconverted is by the Darkness of his Understanding, the Preposterousness of his Will and the Disconcertedness of his Faculties and ment...
preview | full record— Hammond, William (1719-1783)
Date: December 10, 1776; 1777
"To understand literally these metaphors or ideas expressed in poetical language, seems to be equally absurd as to conclude, that because painters sometimes represent poets writing from the dictates of a little winged boy or genius, that this same genius did really inform him in a whisper what he...
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
