text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"That the plan of life which enables us to carry some knowledge and virtue into another world, is the one best calculated to ensure the content in this cannot be denied; yet few people act according to this principle, though it be universally allowed that it admits not of dispute. Present pleasure, or present power, carry before it these sober convictions; and it is for the day, not for life, that man bargains with happiness. How few!--how very few! have sufficient foresight of resolution, to endure a small evil at the moment, to avoid a greater hereafter.
Woman in particular, whose virtue is built on mutable prejudices, seldom attains to this greatness of mind; so that, becoming the slave of her own feelings, she is easily subjugated by those of others. Thus degraded, her reason, her misty reason! is employed rather to burnish than to snap her chains.
(pp. 70-1; cf. pp. 226-227 in EECO-TCP)",2014-08-10 06:42:15 UTC,"""Thus degraded, her reason, her misty reason! is employed rather to burnish than to snap her chains.""",2009-09-14 19:43:33 UTC,"","",2011-05-26,Fetters,"",Reading,15397,5775
"If such be the force of habit; if such be the bondage of folly, how carefully ought we to guard the mind from storing up vicious associations; and equally careful should we be to cultivate the understanding, to save the poor wight from the weak dependent state of even harmless ignorance. For it is the right use of reason alone which makes us independent of everything--excepting the unclouded reason--""Whose service is perfect freedom.""
(p. 119)",2012-01-23 18:18:22 UTC,"""For it is the right use of reason alone which makes us independent of everything--excepting the unclouded reason--'Whose service is perfect freedom.'""",2009-09-14 19:43:34 UTC,"","",2012-01-23,"","• Cross-reference: Luke 1:68-79: God ""has come to his people and set them free."" Also Luke 2:29-32: ""Lord, you now have set your servant free.""
• The quotation is from the Book of Common Prayer.
• Reviewed 2003-10-23",Reading,15405,5775
"The business of education in this case, is only to conduct the shooting tendrils to a proper pole; yet after laying precept upon precept, without allowing a child to acquire judgement itself, parents expect them to act in the same manner by this borrowed fallacious light, as if they had illuminated it themselves; and be, when they enter life,what their parents are at the close. They do not consider that the tree, and even the human body, does not strengthen its fibres till it has reached its full growth.
There appears to be something analogous in the mind. The senses and the imagination give a form to the character, during childhood and youth; and the understanding, as life advances, gives firmness to the first fair purposes of sensibility, till virtue, arising rather from the clear conviction of reason than the impulses of the heart, morality is made to rest on a rock against which the storms of passion beat.
(pp. 111-2)",2012-01-23 18:33:23 UTC,"""The senses and the imagination give a form to the character, during childhood and youth; and the understanding, as life advances, gives firmness to the first fair purposes of sensibility, till virtue, arising rather from the clear conviction of reason than the impulses of the heart, morality is made to rest on a rock against which the storms of passion beat.""",2009-09-14 19:43:35 UTC,Chapter V,"",2012-01-23,"",Deleted previous which was duplicate,Reading,15418,5775
"Nothing is more luxuriant to a thinking mind than self approbation: It is a sun which dispels the clouds of solicitude and anxiety. Homer tells us of an herb which the ancients called Nepenthe; that being made an ingredient in their feasts, banished sorrow from their minds. I wish we could obtain this valuable plant for my aunt: It would be a pleasing substitute for cards; for, as usual, the tea tray is no sooner removed, than the apparatus for play is introduced.
(p. 33-4)
",2011-04-18 02:39:23 UTC,"""Nothing is more luxuriant to a thinking mind than self approbation: It is a sun which dispels the clouds of solicitude and anxiety.""",2011-04-18 02:39:23 UTC,Letter III,"",,"","",Reading in Google Books,18302,6825
"A breach, however, such as this, of plans so long formed, and a desertion so voluntary of his house, at the very epoch he had settled for rendering its residence the most desirable, sent him in complete discomfiture to his bed. But there, in a few hours, his sanguine temper, and the kindness of his heart new modelled and new coloured the circumstances of his chagrin. He considered he should have full time to prepare for the double marriages; and that, with the aid of Lavinia, he might delight and amaze them all, with new dresses and new trinkets, which he could now choose without the torment of continual opposition from the documentising Miss Margland. Thus he restored his plastic mind to its usual satisfaction, and arose the next morning without a cloud upon his brow. The pure design of benevolence is to bestow happiness upon others, but its intrinsic reward is bringing happiness home!
(IV.iii.12, pp. 175-6; pp. 590-1 in OUP edition)",2013-05-29 15:40:33 UTC,"""Thus he restored his plastic mind to its usual satisfaction, and arose the next morning without a cloud upon his brow.""",2013-05-29 15:38:21 UTC,Chapter XII. Dilemmas,"",,"","","Searching ""mind"" in C-H Lion",20216,7335