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Genre:
"Prose"
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Work title:
"An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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"Population"
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Date: 1770
"But this faculty [Reason] has been much perverted, often to vile, and often to insignificant purposes; sometimes chained like a slave or malefactor, and sometimes soaring in forbidden and unknown regions."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)