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merit

metaphor

occupation / innovator as

Leader of the Opposition

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

nationality

British

Secretary of State for the Home Department

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom

Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Member of the House of Lords

Member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom

Member of the 17th Parliament of the United Kingdom

Member of the 15th Parliament of the United Kingdom

Member of the 16th Parliament of the United Kingdom

Member of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom

Member of the 12th Parliament of the United Kingdom

Member of the 11th Parliament of the United Kingdom

Member of the 13th Parliament of the United Kingdom

religion

Anglicanism

politician

scientific organization

Royal Society

Travellers Club

is the opinion one man entertains of another.

's abuse is responsible for half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive.

Lord Palmerston wisely cautioned that "Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors."2 True. But how do we know-who decides- whether a metaphor is used or abused? Is it used or abused in the Bible? In the story of the origin of the Ten Commandments? In the doctrine of transubstantiation? In the libido theory?

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Lord Palmerston