-
Literary Period
-
Age of Sensibility
-
Early Modern (1)
-
-
Metaphor Category
-
Writing
-
- Genre
- Gender of Author
- Nationality of Author
- Religion of Author
Your search for
Metaphor Category:
"Writing"
AND
Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
AND
Work title:
"The Sceptic"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
AND
Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
AND
Work title:
"The Sceptic"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1770
"It is a favourite maxim with Mr LOCKE, as it was with some ancient philosophers, that the human soul, previous to education, is like a piece of white paper, or tabula rasa, and this simile, harmless as it may appear, betrays our great modern into several important mistakes."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
