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Metaphor Category:
"War"
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Work title:
"The Discourses"
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Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"What Struglings and Conflicts are there betwixt the Animal Inclinations, and the more masculine Dictates of Reason?"
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)
Date: 1704
"All endeavours must be therefore used, either to divert, bind up, stupify, fluster, and amuse the senses, or else, to justle them out of their stations; and while they are either absent, or otherwise employed, or engaged in a civil war against each other, the spirit enters and performs ...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1748
"There is nothing more certain, that that there are two Kinds of Conviction, one flowing from a sudden and violent breaking-in of Truth, when the Understanding is as it were taken by Storm, and a Man's whole System of Thinking is changed in an Instant: the other a gradual, gentle, and slow steali...
preview | full record— Anonymous; [Lyttleton]
