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"Prose"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Work title:
"Of Memory and Imagination [from Dissertations Moral and Critical]"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Body"
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Date: 1783
"The human brain is a bodily substance; and sensible and permanent impressions made upon it must so far resemble those made on sand by the foot, or on wax by the seal, as to have certain shape, length, breadth, and deepness"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)