updated_at,reviewed_on,context,comments,theme,id,text,provenance,created_at,work_id,metaphor,dictionary
2009-09-14 19:33:40 UTC,,From Journal Sixth,"",Mind's eye,8610,"""Sir,"" quoth the Rector, ""I've a story
Quite apropos to lay before ye.
A sage philosopher, to try
What pupil saw with reason's eye,
Prepared three boxes, gold, lead, stone,
And bid three youngsters claim each one.
The first, a Bristol merchant's heir,
Loved pelf above the charming fair;
So 'tis not difficult to say,
Which box the dolthead took away.
The next, as sensible as me,
Desired the pebbled one, d'ye see.
The other having scratch'd his head,
Considered, though the third was lead,
'Twas metal still surpassing stone,
So claimed the leaden box his own.
Now to unclose they all prepare,
And hope alternate laughs at fear.
The golden case does ashes hold,
The leaden shines with sparkling gold,
But in the outcast stone they see
A jewel,--such pray fancy me.""",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-06-01 00:00:00 UTC,3339,"""A sage philosopher, to try / What pupil saw with reason's eye,""",Eye
2009-09-14 19:39:55 UTC,,"Vol. 2, Chap. 9",•INTEREST. I've included twice: Impression and Face,Physiognomy,14071,"By no means Madam, answered Mr. Fenton. For, if such Characters are impressed by Nature on the Countenance, independent of any such Characters in the Mind, this would, first, overthrow the whole System of the Physiognomists, who judged of the Mind by the Countenance alone. And, secondly, it would overthrow the Opinion of Socrates himself, who allowed that his Countenance had received such Impressions from the natural Bent and Disposition of his Mind. But, again, if the Mind has really a Power to impress her own Character or Likeness on the Countenance; what should take away this Power, why does she not retain it? Why should not a total Change of Character in the Soul, make some suitable Change of Character in the Aspect? It does, Madam, it does make a total Change. And there are thousands of Faces, in yonder sanctified City, that, once, expressed all the Sweetness of bashful Modesty; and yet are, now, as much hardened and bronzed over with Impudence; as the Face of the Statue at Charing-Cross.
(pp. 127-8)","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Prose)",2005-05-23 00:00:00 UTC,5214,"Characters are not impressed on the countenance independent of the characters in the mind because that would ""overthrow the whole System of Physiognomists"" and becuase ""it would overthrow the Opinion of Socrates himself, who allowed that his Countenance had received such Impressions from the natural Bent and Disposition of his Mind""",Impression
2009-09-14 19:41:07 UTC,,"Act IV, scene i","","",14520,"G. MAM.
Indeed, Madam, there seems to be a great alteration, both in your person and sentiments. But as I admire the one, I presume the other will make no alteration in the nature of our connexion.
EM.
A groundless hope, Governor. To be plain with you, I find that women educated in England, not only bestow their persons in marriage; but that they have minds also, which are interested in the event of that union; souls, Governor; of which you Asiatic tyrants will hardly allow us women to boast the possession.
G. MAM.
Why really, Miss Emmeline, you seem to be possessed of a soul , indeed, if one may judge by this specimen of your spirit. But as the philosophers hold the soul to be of no sex, we Asiatics, as you call us, wisely think the best part of a woman is her person.
EM.
And you would be mean enough to accept the hand of a woman, who had disposed of her heart to another.
G. MAM.
Why look ye, madam, if a woman takes upon her to dispose of what is not her property, but has been made over to another, I don't see why the first owner may not, without the imputation of meanness, reclaim it. But is that really the case, Miss Emmeline?",Searching in HDIS (Drama),2004-11-15 00:00:00 UTC,5417,Philosophers hold the soul to be of no sex,""
2009-09-14 19:41:54 UTC,,"","","",14778,"The bubbling brooks in plaintive murmurs roll,
The bird of omen, with incessant scream,
To melancholy thoughts awakes the soul,
And lulls the mind to contemplation's dream.
(p. 104)",Searching in ECCO,2005-10-19 00:00:00 UTC,5518,"""To melancholy thoughts awakes the soul, / And lulls the mind to contemplation's dream""",""
2009-09-14 19:42:23 UTC,,"",•See the catalogue of assertions about Reason below.
,"",14956,"Religion's but Opinion's bastard Son,
A perfect mystery, more than three in one.
'Tis fancy all, distempers of the mind;
As Education taught us, we're inclined.
Happy the man, whose reason bids him see
Mankind are by the state of Nature free;
Who, thinking for himself, despises those
That would upon his better sense impose;
Is to himself the minister of God,
Nor treads the path where Athanasius trod.
Happy (if Mortals can be) is the Man,
Who, not by Priest but Reason, rules his span:
Reason, to its Possessor a sure guide,
Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.
If Reason fails, incapable to tread
Through gloomy Revelation's thickening bed,
On what authority the Church we own?
How shall we worship deities unknown?
Can the Eternal Justice pleas'd receive
The prayers of those, who, ignorant, believe?
(pp. 36-7)
",Searching in ECCO,2004-06-15 00:00:00 UTC,5594,"Religion ""'Tis fancy all, distempers of the mind / As Education taught us, we're inclined.""",""
2013-06-21 18:12:48 UTC,,"","","",21110,"This holds equally true as to time; and I most earnestly recommend to you the care of those minutes and quarters of hours, in the course of the day, which people think too short to deserve their attention; and yet, if summed up at the end of the year, would amount to a very considerable portion of time. For example: you are to be at such a place at twelve, by appointment; you go out at eleven, to make two or three visits first; those persons are not at home, instead of sauntering away that intermediate time at a coffeehouse, and possibly alone, return home, write a letter, beforehand, for the ensuing post, or take up a good book, I do not mean Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, or Newton, by way of dipping; but some book of rational amusement and detached pieces, as Horace, Boileau, Waller, La Bruyere, etc. This will be so much time saved, and by no means ill employed. Many people lose a great deal of time by reading: for they read frivolous and idle books, such as the absurd romances of the two last centuries; where characters, that never existed, are insipidly displayed, and sentiments that were never felt, pompously described: the Oriental ravings and extravagances of the ""Arabian Nights,"" and Mogul tales; or, the new flimsy brochures that now swarm in France, of fairy tales, 'Reflections sur le coeur et l'esprit, metaphysique de l'amour, analyse des beaux sentimens', and such sort of idle frivolous stuff, that nourishes and improves the mind just as much as whipped cream would the body. Stick to the best established books in every language; the celebrated poets, historians, orators, or philosophers. By these means (to use a city metaphor) you will make fifty PER CENT. Of that time, of which others do not make above three or four, or probably nothing at all.
(II.clxxxiv, pp. 334-5, February 5, O. S. 1750)","Searching ""mind"" In PGDP",2013-06-21 18:12:48 UTC,5452,"""Many people lose a great deal of time by reading: for they read frivolous and idle books, such as the absurd romances of the two last centuries; where characters, that never existed, are insipidly displayed, and sentiments that were never felt, pompously described: the Oriental ravings and extravagances of the 'Arabian Nights,' and Mogul tales; or, the new flimsy brochures that now swarm in France, of fairy tales, 'Reflections sur le coeur et l'esprit, metaphysique de l'amour, analyse des beaux sentimens', and such sort of idle frivolous stuff, that nourishes and improves the mind just as much as whipped cream would the body.""",""