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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Augustan"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Metaphor Category:
"Body"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Politics of Author:
"Whiggish"
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Work title:
"A Treatise of Human Nature"
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Date: November, 1740
"The anatomist ought never to emulate the painter; nor in his accurate dissections and portraitures of the smaller parts of the human body, pretend to give his figures any graceful and engaging attitude or expression. There is even something hideous, or at least minute, in the views of thing...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)