work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6825,"",Reading in Google Books,2011-04-18 02:46:13 UTC,"Do not mistake me. I have no wish to confine female education to domestic duties. No, Maria; the greatest source of our happiness is an enlightened mind. It is a cause of regret that more attention is not paid to our education. If the mind is a barren waste, of what avail are the beauties of the most lovely face, the elegance of the most enchanting shape, the grace of the most accomplished person; the imperceptible hand of time will deprive them of every external charm, and eclipse the lustre of the most penetrating eye. But the mind, that immortal part, can never fade. If properly cultivated, it will unfold new beauties, and by a continual progress in virtue and happiness, be finally prepared for superior enjoyments above; while a trifling dissipated disposition can never be attuned to those delightful employments which engage so many departed saints in heaven.
(pp. 47-8)",,18307,"","""If the mind is a barren waste, of what avail are the beauties of the most lovely face, the elegance of the most enchanting shape, the grace of the most accomplished person; the imperceptible hand of time will deprive them of every external charm, and eclipse the lustre of the most penetrating eye.""","",2011-04-18 02:46:13 UTC,Letter VI
7215,"",Searching in Google Books,2012-04-13 14:36:39 UTC,"[...] And these, ""O that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.""--In reading Rom. vii. also, the Spirit of God bore witness with my spirit, that it is my daily experience that I do delight in the law of God, after the inward man. Notwithstanding the law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
(143-4)",,19686,"","""Notwithstanding the law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.""","",2012-04-13 14:36:39 UTC,""
7215,"",Searching in Google Books,2012-04-13 14:38:08 UTC,"My thirst increased, and grew more vehement. God did open my mouth wide, and he did fill it. My soul was held up by the power of God, as the needle by the loadstone, and I did by faith, with joy draw water out of these wells of salvation. I drank and was satisfied from the fulness of my unchangeable God, who has loved me with an everlasting love, and with loving kindness has drawn me. I hated sin bitterly, and myself for it. I renewedly chose my dear invaluable portion, my pearl of great price; my soul exulted, gloried, triumphed in her choice, and determined never to let him go, whom my soul loved! I gave up my all again, and again, into his merciful and faithful hands, and I am his own; he will keep what I committed to him, and I will cling to him and rejoice in him, for he is truth, and faithfulness in the abstract, yea, he is altogether lovely!
(p. 181)",,19687,"","""My soul was held up by the power of God, as the needle by the loadstone, and I did by faith, with joy draw water out of these wells of salvation.""","",2012-04-13 14:38:49 UTC,""
7748,"","Searching in ""fund"" LION",2013-11-04 02:07:01 UTC,"And pray, why not Madam, said an old gentleman who had listened attentively to this loquacious harangue, why may not a woman if she has leisure and genius, take up her pen to gratify both herself and friends. I am not ashamed to acknowledge that I have perused the productions of some of our female pens, with the highest satisfaction; and am happy when I find any woman has so large a fund of amusement in her own mind. I never heard a woman who was fond of her pen complain of the tediousness of time; nor, did I ever know such a woman extravagantly fond of dress, public amusements, or expensive gaiety; yet, I have seen many women of genius prove themselves excellent mothers, wives, and daughters.
(vol. II, p. 117)",,23136,"","""I am not ashamed to acknowledge that I have perused the productions of some of our female pens, with the highest satisfaction; and am happy when I find any woman has so large a fund of amusement in her own mind.""",Money,2013-11-04 02:07:01 UTC,""