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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Politics of Author:
"Whig"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Author name:
"Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)"
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Metaphor Category:
"Machine"
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"Population"
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Date: 1701
"Man is a Creature of so mixed a Composure, and of a Frame so inconsistent and different from Itself, that it easily speaks his Affinity to the highest and meanest Beings; that is to say, he is made of Body and Soul, he is at once an Engine and an Engineer."
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