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Genre:
"Prose"
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Religion of Author:
"Conversion to Catholicism"
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Work title:
"The Discourses"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Container"
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"Liquid"
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Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"Learning ought to be infus'd into the Scholar like spirits into a Bottle, by little and little, for whosoever attempts to pour in all at once, may in all likelihood spill a great part, and in a great measure fill the Vessel with Wind and Air."
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)