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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Politics of Author:
"Royalist (Pro-Stuart)"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Date: 1715
"Thus Cynical Men, who out of Pride of their own Parts disdain Company, and can no more endure Conversation than Owls the Day-Light, like Gold in the Bowels of the Earth, their Parts are useless and good for nothing, who cannot without Offence walk the Publick Ways; they are Saints indeed in priv...
preview | full record— Bulstrode, Richard, Sir (1610-1711)
Date: 1715
"But Malvezzi tell us, it is, for that Nature in Providence drives away the Evil from it self, and thriftily reserves that which is Good; and for this Reason it is, says he, that those who have the Plague are desirous to come into Company, that they may give it to others; and by the same Reason, ...
preview | full record— Bulstrode, Richard, Sir (1610-1711)


