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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Work title:
"Practical Education"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Machine"
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Date: 1798
"When once this generous desire of affection and esteem is raised in the mind, their exertions seem to be universal, and spontaneous: children are then no longer like machines, which require to be wound up regularly to perform certain revolutions; they are animated with a living principle, which ...
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