work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4782,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-10 00:00:00 UTC,"Now the Purpose for which he principally intended his Book, as in his Preface he spends a great many Words to inform us, was for the Use and Instruction of Children; who being, as it were, a mere rasa tabula, or blank Paper, are ready indifferently for any Opinion, good or bad, [end page] taking all upon Credit; and that it is in the Power of the first Comer to write Saint or Devil upon them, which he pleases. This being truly and certainly the Case, what Devils, nay, what poor Devils would Lestrange make of those Children, who should be so unfortunate as to read his Book, and imbibe his pernicious Principles! Principles, coin'd and suited to promote Growth, and serve the Ends of Popery and Arbitrary Power. Tho' we had never been told he was a Pensioner to a Popish Prince, and that he himself profess'd the same unaccountable Religion, yet his Reflexions upon Æsop would discover it to us: In every political Touch, he shews himself to be the Tool and Hireling of the Popish Faction; since, even a Slave, without some mercenary View, would not bring Arguments to justify Slavery, nor endeavour to establish Arbitrary Power upon the Basis of Right Reason. What sort of Children therefore are the Blank Paper, upon which such Morality as this ought to be written? Not the Children of Britain, I hope; for they are born with free Blood in their Veins; and suck in Liberty with their very Milk. This they should be taught to love and cherish above all things, and, upon occasion, to defend and vindicate it; as it is the Glory of their Country, the greatest Blessing of their Lives, and the peculiar happy Privilege in which they excel all the World besides. Let therefore Lestrange, with his slavish Doctrine, be banish'd to the barren Desarts of Arabia, to the Nurseries of Turkey, Persia, and Morocco, where all Footsteps of Liberty have long since been worn out, and the Minds of the People, by a narrow Way of Thinking, contracted and inur'd to Fear, Poverty, and miserable Servitude. Let the Children of Italy, France, Spain, and the rest of the Popish Countries, furnish him with Blank Paper for Principles, of which free-born Britons are not capable. The earlier such Notions are instill'd into such Minds as theirs indeed, the better it will be for them, as it will keep them from thinking of any other than the abject servile Condition to which they are born. [...]",2011-06-27,12697,•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Paper,"""Now the Purpose for which [Lestrange] principally intended his Book, as in his Preface he spends a great many Words to inform us, was for the Use and Instruction of Children; who being, as it were, a mere rasa tabula, or blank Paper, are ready indifferently for any Opinion, good or bad, taking all upon Credit; and that it is in the Power of the first Comer to write Saint or Devil upon them, which he pleases.""",Writing,2011-06-27 21:04:44 UTC,Preface
4782,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-10 00:00:00 UTC,"Now the Purpose for which he principally intended his Book, as in his Preface he spends a great many Words to inform us, was for the Use and Instruction of Children; who being, as it were, a mere rasa tabula, or blank Paper, are ready indifferently for any Opinion, good or bad, [end page] taking all upon Credit; and that it is in the Power of the first Comer to write Saint or Devil upon them, which he pleases. This being truly and certainly the Case, what Devils, nay, what poor Devils would Lestrange make of those Children, who should be so unfortunate as to read his Book, and imbibe his pernicious Principles! Principles, coin'd and suited to promote Growth, and serve the Ends of Popery and Arbitrary Power. Tho' we had never been told he was a Pensioner to a Popish Prince, and that he himself profess'd the same unaccountable Religion, yet his Reflexions upon Æsop would discover it to us: In every political Touch, he shews himself to be the Tool and Hireling of the Popish Faction; since, even a Slave, without some mercenary View, would not bring Arguments to justify Slavery, nor endeavour to establish Arbitrary Power upon the Basis of Right Reason. What sort of Children therefore are the Blank Paper, upon which such Morality as this ought to be written? Not the Children of Britain, I hope; for they are born with free Blood in their Veins; and suck in Liberty with their very Milk. This they should be taught to love and cherish above all things, and, upon occasion, to defend and vindicate it; as it is the Glory of their Country, the greatest Blessing of their Lives, and the peculiar happy Privilege in which they excel all the World besides. Let therefore Lestrange, with his slavish Doctrine, be banish'd to the barren Desarts of Arabia, to the Nurseries of Turkey, Persia, and Morocco, where all Footsteps of Liberty have long since been worn out, and the Minds of the People, by a narrow Way of Thinking, contracted and inur'd to Fear, Poverty, and miserable Servitude. Let the Children of Italy, France, Spain, and the rest of the Popish Countries, furnish him with Blank Paper for Principles, of which free-born Britons are not capable. The earlier such Notions are instill'd into such Minds as theirs indeed, the better it will be for them, as it will keep them from thinking of any other than the abject servile Condition to which they are born. [...]",,12699,"","""What sort of Children therefore are the Blank Paper, upon which such Morality as this ought to be written?""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:37:17 UTC,Preface
4782,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-10 00:00:00 UTC,"Now the Purpose for which he principally intended his Book, as in his Preface he spends a great many Words to inform us, was for the Use and Instruction of Children; who being, as it were, a mere rasa tabula, or blank Paper, are ready indifferently for any Opinion, good or bad, [end page] taking all upon Credit; and that it is in the Power of the first Comer to write Saint or Devil upon them, which he pleases. This being truly and certainly the Case, what Devils, nay, what poor Devils would Lestrange make of those Children, who should be so unfortunate as to read his Book, and imbibe his pernicious Principles! Principles, coin'd and suited to promote Growth, and serve the Ends of Popery and Arbitrary Power. Tho' we had never been told he was a Pensioner to a Popish Prince, and that he himself profess'd the same unaccountable Religion, yet his Reflexions upon Æsop would discover it to us: In every political Touch, he shews himself to be the Tool and Hireling of the Popish Faction; since, even a Slave, without some mercenary View, would not bring Arguments to justify Slavery, nor endeavour to establish Arbitrary Power upon the Basis of Right Reason. What sort of Children therefore are the Blank Paper, upon which such Morality as this ought to be written? Not the Children of Britain, I hope; for they are born with free Blood in their Veins; and suck in Liberty with their very Milk. This they should be taught to love and cherish above all things, and, upon occasion, to defend and vindicate it; as it is the Glory of their Country, the greatest Blessing of their Lives, and the peculiar happy Privilege in which they excel all the World besides. Let therefore Lestrange, with his slavish Doctrine, be banish'd to the barren Desarts of Arabia, to the Nurseries of Turkey, Persia, and Morocco, where all Footsteps of Liberty have long since been worn out, and the Minds of the People, by a narrow Way of Thinking, contracted and inur'd to Fear, Poverty, and miserable Servitude. Let the Children of Italy, France, Spain, and the rest of the Popish Countries, furnish him with Blank Paper for Principles, of which free-born Britons are not capable. The earlier such Notions are instill'd into such Minds as theirs indeed, the better it will be for them, as it will keep them from thinking of any other than the abject servile Condition to which they are born. [...]",,12700,"","""Let the Children of Italy, France, Spain, and the rest of the Popish Countries, furnish him with Blank Paper for Principles, of which free-born Britons are not capable.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:37:17 UTC,Preface
4824,"","Searching ""paper"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-03-26 00:00:00 UTC,"If we, by Chance, that Thief Petillius name,
You, as your Custom is, defend his Fame.
""Petillius is my Friend; from early Youth
""Chearful we liv'd together, and in truth
""I have been much indebted to his Power,
""And I rejoice to find his Danger o'er.
""But, in the Name of Wonder be it said,
""At that same Trial how he sav'd his Head.""--
Such Rancour this, of such a poisonous Vein,
As never, never, shall my Paper stain:
Much less infect my Heart, if I may dare
For my own Heart, in any thing, to swear.
",,12901,•Cross-reference: see the translation of these lines in Philip Francis' Horace.,"""Such Rancour this, of such a poisonous Vein, / As never, never, shall my Paper stain: / Much less infect my Heart""","",2009-09-14 19:37:31 UTC,The First Book of the Satires of Horace
4857,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Natural Religion I have made my Objection to already, et valeat quantum valere potest, and suppose his Lordship, as cited [Exam. p. 102] ""that man came per- [end page 46] fect out of the Hands of his Creator, and furnished with sufficient Light to see and perform his Duty without an Admonisher at every turn at his Elbow;"" but not that this Light was natural, or that any Law, as the Doctor words it in the next Page, ""was implanted in the very Frame of Man at his Creation, pointing out to him his chief Good and Happiness, and enabling him to acquire it,"" because no such law was or could be; it supposes Man really capable of being like God in knowing Good and Evil. The Soul is a Tabula rasa, and gets all it knows thro' the Body; so there is no Law implanted in the Soul. the Appetites of the Body act mechanically, and we know that they can teach us, naturally as brute beasts; and they lead us to no Good or Happiness higher than theirs.
(pp. 46-7)",,12954,"","""The Soul is a Tabula rasa, and gets all it knows thro' the Body; so there is no Law implanted in the Soul.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:37:35 UTC,The State of Religion Before the Fall
4887,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""seal"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-17 00:00:00 UTC,"Touch'd, captiv'd, raptur'd, aw'd, all extasy'd!
All lost! in trembling Wonder, thy Embrace
I meet, thou heavenly Bridegroom[1]! ah! repeat,
My Life! my Sweetness! those connubial Vows
(Soft, as when first the Sounds betroth'd my Soul)
""Thy Maker is thy Husband""[2]. O! repeat
Earth, Air, and Skies th' eternal Echoes round,
""Thy Maker is thy Husband""!--'tis for Words
(Th' o'erwhelming Bliss) too vast! for Thought too full!
Ye Nymphs of Solyma, my bridal Friends,
That view my shudd'ring Pangs, my speechless Joy,
Tell my Soul's Lord, the too too lovely--(ah!
By Pity's Softness I adjure ye!) tell
My Prince! my Charmer!--I am sick of Love.
Turn thy sweet Eyes away! their Beams o'erpower,
With Ravishments too soft, my fainting Sight!
--Yet hold me near Thee; set me as a Seal,
Deep on thy dear dear Heart! for strong as Death
Are the fond Ardours of impatient Love;
More cruel than the Grave, its Jealousy.
--And art thou mine? the dread, dear Lover mine?
Th' espousing God?--ah me! a worthless Bride!
How base, how poor! bow prostrate Thoughts in Praise,
In grateful Thanks: with all thy purest Fires,
Flame, kindled Heart: bend Choice, Affections, Will;
Be wholly his the Life his Pity sav'd.",,13106,"•INTEREST. Note 1 concerns metaphors: ""The bold, and familiar Metaphors used throughout this Paragraph, tho' differing from the common Idioms of Speech among us, are, the current Language of Scripture, and genuine Sense of it; customary to the Conceptions, and Expressions of devout Minds: and it is hoped, will be admitted, and understood by every Christian.""","""Yet hold me near Thee; set me as a Seal, / Deep on thy dear dear Heart!""","",2009-09-14 19:37:46 UTC,""
4887,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""seal"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"Go, Christian! with th' endearing Pledges seal'd
Fresh on thy Soul, resembling Pattern show
How Jesus liv'd; thy lov'd and loving Lord.
Go, copy his Humility, his Zeal
To glorify his Father, his Contempt
Of vain, base Earth; Disciple of his Cross.
His Temp'rance copy, Resignation, Truth:
His Meekness, Pity, large Benevolence:
His godlike Fortitude, firm Constancy:
His Love of holy Privacy and Prayer.
Go, happy Fav'rite, feed his pining Poor,
Silent in patient Want; the friendless Poor,
His suff'ring Int'rest (by the selfish World
Neglected) Merit little mark'd below.
Thy Saviour-Judge, thy love-remember'd Work
With echoed Eugé shall applaud, and crown.",,13107,"","""Go, Christian! with th' endearing Pledges seal'd / Fresh on thy Soul, resembling Pattern show/ How Jesus liv'd""","",2009-09-14 19:37:46 UTC,""
5011,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO; found in 4th edition, confirmed in 1st.",2006-10-11 00:00:00 UTC,"But then he distinguishes again concerning this Mind or intellect, and makes it two-fold; agent and Patient: The former of which, he concludes to be immortal, and the latter corruptible. The agent intellect is only immortal and eternal, but the passive is corruptible. Cudworth thinks this a very doubtful and obscure passage; and imagines Aristotle was led to write thus unintelligibly, by his [end page 211] doctrine of forms and qualities; which confounds corporeal, with incorporeal substances: But had that excellent person reflected on the general doctrine of the [GREEK CHARACTERS: TO EN], he would have seen, the passage was plain and easy; and that Aristotle, from the common principle of the human's soul being part of the Divine Substance, draws a conclusion against a future state of separate existence; which, though (as it now appears) all the philosophers embraced, yet all were not so forward to avow. The obvious meaning of the words then is this: The agent Intelligent (says he) is only immortal and eternal, but the passive, corruptible, i.e. The particular sensation of the soul (the passive intelligent) will cease after death; and the substance of it (the agent intelligent) will be resolved into the Soul of the universe. For it was Aristotle's opinion, who compared the soul to a rasa tabula, that human sensations and reflections were passions: These therefore are what he finely calls, the passive intelligent; which, he says, shall cease, or is corruptible. What he meant by the agent intelligent, we learn from his commentators; who interpret it to signify, as Cudworth here acknowledges, the DIVINE INTELLECT; which gloss Aristotle himself fully justifies, in calling it [GREEK CHARACTERS: DEION], divine. But what need many words. The Learned well know, that the intellectus agens of Aristotle was the very same with the anima mundi of Plato and Pythagoras.
(pp. 211-2 in 4th ed.; pp. 389-390 in 1st edition)
",,13436,"•Cross-reference: this passage is cited in a 1797 translation of Aristotle's Ethics and Politics. (p. 50n)
•Metaphor CONFIRMED.","""For it was Aristotle's opinion, who compared the soul to a 'rasa tabula', that human sensations and reflections were passions: These therefore are what he finely calls, the 'passive intelligent'; which, he says, shall cease, or is corruptible.""",Writing,2014-02-05 15:16:44 UTC,"Book III, Section iv"
6879,"",Searching in UVa E-Text Center,2011-05-25 02:56:59 UTC,"It is, therefore, I believe, much more common for the solitary and thoughtful to amuse themselves with schemes of the future, than reviews of the past. For the future is pliant and ductile, and will be easily moulded by a strong fancy into any form. But the images which memory presents are of a stubborn and untractable nature, the objects of remembrance have already existed, and left their signature behind them impressed upon the mind, so as to defy all attempts of rasure or of change.
(pp. 267-8)",,18505,"","""But the images which memory presents are of a stubborn and untractable nature, the objects of remembrance have already existed, and left their signature behind them impressed upon the mind, so as to defy all attempts of rasure or of change.""",Impressions and Writing,2011-05-25 02:56:59 UTC,""
6952,"",Reading,2011-06-21 02:43:20 UTC,"Hail, wond'rous Being, who in pow'r supreme
Exists from everlasting, whose great Name
Deep in the human heart, and every atom,
The Air, the Earth or azure Main contains,
In undecypher'd characters is wrote--
INCOMPREHENSIBLE -- O what can words,
The weak interpreters of mortal thoughts,
Or what can thoughts (tho' wild of wing they rove
Thro' the vast concave of th'aetherial round)
If to the Heav'n of Heavens they'd win their way
Advent'rous, like the birds of night they're lost,
And delug'd in the flood of dazzling day.--
(p. 17, ll. 1-12)",2011-06-20,18732,"• eds. report that the writing metaphor is unusual in these kinds of religious-didactic verse poems? -- a ""sacramental concept of nature"" developed in later poems (334).","""Hail, wond'rous Being, who in pow'r supreme / Exists from everlasting, whose great Name / Deep in the human heart, and every atom, / The Air, the Earth or azure Main contains, / In undecypher'd characters is wrote.""",Writing,2011-06-21 02:46:47 UTC,""