In Orations of Prayse, and in Invectives, the Fancy is praedominant; because the designe is not truth, but to Honour or Dishonour; which is done by noble, or by vile comparisons.
Thomas Hobbes
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- Leviathan; source text line 2192
- Leviathan; source text line 2192
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