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Genre:
"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"Essays on Various Subjects"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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"Motion"
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"Physics"
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Date: 1777
"The philosophical doctrine of the slow recession of bodies from the sun, is a lively image of the reluctance with which we first abandon the light of virtue."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)