work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5813,"",Searching on-line offerings at Free-Press Online Library of Liberty (OLL),2005-05-26 00:00:00 UTC,"Again, the only means by which truth, however immutable in its own nature, can be communicated to the human mind is through the inlet of the senses. It is perhaps impossible that a man shut up in a cabinet can ever be wise. If we would acquire knowledge, we must open our eyes, and contemplate the universe. Till we are acquainted with the meaning of terms and the nature of the objects around us, we cannot understand the propositions that may be formed concerning them. Till we are acquainted with the nature of the objects around us, we cannot compare them with the principles we have formed, and understand the modes of employing them. There are other ways of attaining wisdom and ability beside the school of adversity, but there is no way of attaining them but through the medium of experience. That is, experience brings in the materials with which intellect works; for it must be granted that a man of limited experience will often be more capable than he who has gone through the greatest variety of scenes; or rather perhaps, that one man may collect more experience in a sphere of a few miles square, than another who has sailed round the world.",,15492,"•This takes a little reading to make figurative: mind, inlet, cabinet... A mixture of Lockean, Addisonian, and Habermasian sentiments?","""Again, the only means by which truth, however immutable in its own nature, can be communicated to the human mind is through the inlet of the senses. It is perhaps impossible that a man shut up in a cabinet can ever be wise""",Rooms,2009-09-14 19:43:47 UTC,Vol. I. To Deprive us of the Benefit of Experience
5834,"","Reading S. H. Clark's ""Locke and Metaphor Reconsidered"" ",2005-03-21 00:00:00 UTC,Five windows light the cavern'd Man,,15556,"•Europe, pl iii.1 E60.
•I've included twice: Window and Cave.","""Five windows light the cavern'd Man""",Rooms,2009-09-14 19:43:58 UTC,""
5834,"","Reading S. H. Clark's ""Locke and Metaphor Reconsidered"" in JHI 59:2 (1998) p. 247",2005-03-21 00:00:00 UTC,Reason once fairer than the light [has now been] fould in Knowledges dark Prison house,,15558,"",Reason once fairer than the light [has now been] fould in Knowledges dark Prison house,"",2009-09-14 19:43:58 UTC,""
5859,"","Searching ""brain"" and ""Furniture"" in HDIS (Drama)",2006-01-24 00:00:00 UTC,"CHEV.
Fined for Horace, horsed for Homer, and plucked because I could not parrot over their premises and predicates, majors and minors, antecedents and consequents. My brain was a broker's shop; the little good furniture it contained all hid by lumber!
",,15603,"•I've included thrice: Shop, Furniture, Lumber","""My brain was a broker's shop; the little good furniture it contained all hid by lumber!""","",2009-09-14 19:44:05 UTC,"Act II, scene iii"
6833,"",Reading,2011-04-25 01:48:16 UTC,"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.",,18344,"","""My own mind is my own church.""","",2011-04-25 01:48:16 UTC,The Author's Profession of Faith
6833,"",Reading OLL edition,2011-05-19 20:43:15 UTC,"Any person, who has made observations on the state and progress of the human mind, by observing his own, cannot but have observed, that there are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts -- those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. I have always made it a rule to treat those voluntary visitors with civility, taking care to examine, as well as I was able, if they were worth entertaining; and it is from them I have acquired almost all the knowledge that I have. As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in the way of beginning learning for himself afterwards. Every person of learning is finally his own teacher; the reason of which is, that principles, being of a distinct quality to circumstances, cannot be impressed upon the memory; their place of mental residence is the understanding, and they are never so lasting as when they begin by conception.
(pp. 434-5)",,18439,"Note, this is not in the French edition that Foote and Kramnick use, and therefore not in the Penguin reader.","""Every person of learning is finally his own teacher; the reason of which is, that principles, being of a distinct quality to circumstances, cannot be impressed upon the memory; their place of mental residence is the understanding, and they are never so lasting as when they begin by conception.""",Impressions,2011-05-19 20:43:15 UTC,""
5795,"","Reading; found again in G.J. Barker-Benfield's The Culture of Sensibility (Chicago and London: U of Chicago Press, 1996), 18, where the metaphor is wrongly attributed to Akenside. ",2012-08-16 14:27:51 UTC,"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain,
Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain.
Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise!
Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Each, as the various avenues of sense
Delight or sorrow to the soul dispense,
Brightens or fades; yet all, with magic art,
Control the latent fibres of the heart.
As studious Prospero's mysterious spell
Drew every subject-spirit to his cell;
Each, at thy call, advances or retires,
As judgment dictates or the scene inspires.
Each thrills the seat of sense, that sacred source
Whence the fine nerves direct their mazy course,
And thro' the frame invisibly convey
The subtle, quick vibrations as they play;
Man's little universe at once o'ercast,
At once illumined when the cloud is past.",,19923,REVISIT AND REREAD POEM. get the rest of these metaphors....,"""Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, / Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain.""",Rooms and Fetters,2012-08-16 14:27:51 UTC,""
7382,"",Reading,2013-04-25 19:00:31 UTC,"The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true. as I have heard from Hell.
For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite. and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.
This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.
But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul, is to be expunged; this I shall do, by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
(Plate 14)",,20144,"","""If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.""",Rooms,2013-04-25 19:00:31 UTC,""
7587,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2014-07-12 17:38:50 UTC,"Mary had been bred in the principles of the church of England, but her esteem for this venerable preacher led her occasionally to attend upon his public instructions. Her religion was, in reality, little allied to any system of forms; and, as she has often told me, was founded rather in taste, than in the niceties of polemical discussion. Her mind constitutionally attached itself to the sublime and the amiable. She found an inexpressible delight in the beauties of nature, and in the splendid reveries of the imagination. But nature itself, she thought, would be no better than a vast blank, if the mind of the observer did not supply it with an animating soul. When she walked amidst the wonders of nature, she was accustomed to converse with her God. To her mind he was pictured as not less amiable, generous and kind, than great, wise and exalted In fact, she had received few lessons of religion in her youth, and her religion was almost entirely of her own creation. But she was not on that account the less attached to it, or the less scrupulous in discharging what she considered as its duties. She could not recollect the time when she had believed the doctrine of future punishments. The tenets of her system were the growth of her own moral taste, and her religion therefore had always been a gratification, never a terror, to her. She expected a future state; but she would not allow her ideas of that future state to be modified, by the notions of judgment and retribution. From this sketch, it is sufficiently evident, that the pleasure she took in an occasional attendance upon the sermons of Dr. Price, was not accompanied with a superstitious adherence to his doctrines. The fact is, that, as far down as the year 1787, she regularly frequented public worship, for the most part according to the forms of the church of England. After that period her attendance became less constant, and in no long time was wholly discontinued. I believe it may be admitted as a maxim, that no person of a well furnished mind, that has shaken off the implicit subjection of youth, and is not the zealous partizan of a sect, can bring himself to conform to the public and regular routine of sermons and prayers.
(pp. 33-5)",,24162,"","""I believe it may be admitted as a maxim, that no person of a well furnished mind, that has shaken off the implicit subjection of youth, and is not the zealous partizan of a sect, can bring himself to conform to the public and regular routine of sermons and prayers.""",Rooms,2014-07-12 17:38:50 UTC,""