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"Presbyterian"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Author name:
"Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)"
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"Scottish"
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"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Augustan"
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Date: 1745
"I would rather compare it [the mind] to a Seed, which contains all the Stamina of the future Plant, and all those Principles of Perfection, to which it aspires in its After-growth, and regularly arrives by gradual Stages, unless it is obstructed in its Progress by external Violence."
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