"'This temper of soul,' says the Guardian, speaking of meekness and humility,'keeps our understanding tight about us.' Whether the author had any meaning in this expression, or what it was, I shall not take upon me to determine; but hardly could any thing more incongruous in the way of metaphor, have been imagined. The understanding is made a girdle to our other mental faculties, for the fastening of which girdle, meekness and humility serve for a buckle."
The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1776).<br>
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<u>The Philosophy of Rhetoric. By George Campbell</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T145750">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;