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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Politics of Author:
"From Rockinghamite Whig to Anti-Jacobin"
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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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Work title:
"A Vindication of Natural Society"
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Metaphor Category:
"War"
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Date: 1756
"They have inlisted Reason to fight against itself, and employ it's whole Force to prove that it is an insufficient Guide to them in the Conduct of their Lives."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1756
"Not only their Understandings labour continually, which is the severest Labour, but their Hearts are torn by the worst, most troublesome, and insatiable of all Passions, by Avarice, by Ambition, by Fear and Jealousy. No part of the Mind has Rest. Power gradually extirpates from the Mind every hu...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)