-
Literary Period
-
Early Modern (2)
-
Eighteenth Century
-
Metaphor Category
-
Government
-
- Genre
- Gender of Author
- Nationality of Author
- Politics of Author
Your search for
Metaphor Category:
"Government"
AND
Work title:
"Natural History"
AND
Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
AND
Work title:
"Natural History"
AND
Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
Date: 1757
"This in the mean time is obvious, that the empire of all religious faith over the understanding is wavering and uncertain, subject to every variety of humour, and dependent on the present incidents, which strike the imagination."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1780-85; in French, 36 vols. 1749-1788
"Is it difficult to perceive that our ideas originate from our senses alone; that the objects we regard as real existences, are those concerning which the senses uniformly give the same testimony."
preview | full record— Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de (1707-1788)
