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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Politics of Author:
"Whiggish"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Author name:
"Hume, David (1711-1776)"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Date: 1751, 1777
"Virtue, placed at such a distance, is like a fixed star, which, though to the eye of reason, it may appear as luminous as the sun in his meridian, is so infinitely removed, as to affect the senses, neither with light nor heat."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)