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Genre:
"Letter"
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"Prose"
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Work title:
"Sensus Communis, An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour in a Letter to a Friend [collected in Characteristics]"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Restoration"
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Metaphor Category:
"Machine"
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"Motion"
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Date: 1709, 1714
"They wou'd new frame the Human Heart; and have a mighty Fancy to reduce all its Motions, Ballances and Weights, to that one Principle and Foundation of a cool and deliberate Selfishness."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)