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Genre:
"Dictionary"
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Work title:
"Reason [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"War"
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Date: 1755
"When valour preys on reason / It eats the sword it fights with"
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]