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Politics of Author:
"Anti-Jacobin"
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Work title:
"Thoughts on the Cultivation of the Heart and Temper in the Education of Daughters [from Essays on Various Subjects]"
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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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"Industrial Revolution"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
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Date: 1777
"How cruel is it to extinguish by neglect or unkindness, the precious sensibility of an open temper, to chill the amiable glow of an ingenous soul, and to quench the bright flame of a noble and generous spirit!"
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Date: 1777
"If I may be allowed to change the allusion so soon, I would say, that the passions also resemble fires, which are friendly and beneficial when under proper direction, but if suffered to blaze without restraint, they carry devastation along with them, and, if totally extinguished, leave the benig...
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