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Genre:
"Prose"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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Work title:
"Conjectures on Original Composition"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Body"
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"War"
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Date: 1759
"For genius may be compared to the natural strength of the body; learning to the superinduced accoutrements of arms: if the first is equal to the proposed exploit, the latter rather encumbers, than assists; rather retards, than promotes, the victory."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)