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Gentleman's Magazine 1842 part 1 p.17
We are unwilling to throw any check upon the pleasing
emotions which the perusal of these lines is calculated to
raise in the mind of the reader, by any grave, prosaic
reflections of our own: but we must be permitted to say,
that we are the more anxious to impress our own doctrine,
because we are conviniced that the habit, so universal in
all climes and ages of the world, of speaking
metaphorically, of endowing objects with properties not
inherent, of personifying, has had a too important influence
upon all systems of logic and metaphysic; in which langauge
has been unduly treated rather as the mistress than the
interpreter of philosophy.
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