work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5355,"","Searching ""mind"" in ECCO",2004-10-01 00:00:00 UTC,"BIAS, or BIASS, in a general sense, the inclination or bent of a person's mind to one thing more than another. It also signifies the lead or weight put into a bowl, that draws or turns the course of it any way to which the bias looks.
(I, 626)",,14348,•INTEREST. Here the two literal senses of the word rub up against each other in the entry for bias. Revisit and think about as an example of near metaphoricity.,"""BIAS, or BIASS, in a general sense, the inclination or bent of a person's mind to one thing more than another.""","",2014-09-01 16:23:32 UTC,Vol I
5355,"","Searching ""mind"" in ECCO",2004-10-01 00:00:00 UTC,"That is, let not great examples, or authorities, browbeat they reason into too great a diffidence fo thyself: thyself so reverence, as to prefer the native growth of thy own mind to the richest import from abroad; such borrowed riches make us poor. The man who thus reverences himself, will soon find the world's reverence to follow his own. His works will stand distinguished; his the sole property of them; which property alone can confer the noble title of an author: that is, of one who, to speak accurately, thinks, and composes; while other invaders of teh press, how voluminous, and learned soever, with due respect be it spoken, only read and write.
(II, 254)",,14349,"•REVISIT. Investigate more this ""native growth."" The expression appears throughout the period. ","""That is, let not great examples, or authorities, browbeat they reason into too great a diffidence fo thyself: thyself so reverence, as to prefer the native growth of thy own mind to the richest import from abroad; such borrowed riches make us poor.""","",2014-09-01 16:25:13 UTC,Vol. II
5556,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"[...} How marvellously he unfolds the great Volume of Temporal and Eternal Nature, and discovers the true Origin of natural and moral Evil; which has so perplexed modern Divines and Philosophers, as it formerly did the Ancient Sages to Account for. How solidly he establishes, in Opposition to the celebrated Mr. Locke, the Doctrine of Innate Ideas; or that the Soul of Man, is not in its first created State, a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper, but full of divine Sensations, and the Powers, Riches and Glories of Eternity; all treasured up and lying dormant in it. In [end page 5] a Word, how clearly he demonstrates to the ingenuous, enquiring Mind, the essential, eternal, and unchangeable Distinction, between God and Nature; a Mystery, with respect to its true Ground, hidden for Ages; and many other Truths of the utmost Moment, all coming Home to the Bosoms of Men; I am filled with Admiration; and cannot but consider him as a resplendent Luminary, newly arisen in the intellectual and spiritual World, in order to dispel the Darkness of bewildered Reason and Learning, and to establish in their Room, a Philosophy founded upon the solid and sublime Principles of the Gospel, the manifest Operations of Nature, and the immutable Relations of Things [...]
(pp. 5-6)",,14842,"•""He"" is William Law.
•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Paper","""How solidly he establishes, in Opposition to the celebrated Mr. Locke, the Doctrine of Innate Ideas; or that the Soul of Man, is not in its first created State, a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper, but full of divine Sensations, and the Powers, Riches and Glories of Eternity; all treasured up and lying dormant in it.""",Coinage and Writing,2013-06-11 18:38:54 UTC,""
6824,"","Searching ""the mind is a"" in Google Books",2011-04-16 15:43:57 UTC,"HUMAN thoughts are like the planetary system, where many are fixed, and many wander, and many continue for ever unintelligible; or rather like meteors, which generally lose their substance with their lustre.
I. The understanding is like the sun, which gives light and life to the whole intellectual world; but the memory, regarding those things only that are past, is like the moon, which is new and full and has her wane by turns.
II. The world is a sea, and life and death are its ebbing and flowing. Wars are the storms which agitate and toss it into fury and faction. The tongues of its enraged inhabitants are then as the noise of many waters. Peace is the calm which succeeds the tempest, and hushes the billows of interest and passion to rest. Prosperity is the sun whose beams produce plenty and comfort. Adversity is a portentous cloud impregnated with discontent, and often bursts in a torrent of desolation and destruction.
(p. 316)",,18294,"","""The understanding is like the sun, which gives light and life to the whole intellectual world; but the memory, regarding those things only that are past, is like the moon, which is new and full and has her wane by turns.""","",2011-04-16 15:43:57 UTC,""
7047,"","Consulting Wikipedia, see ""Jack Sheppard"" ",2011-07-29 15:10:40 UTC,"Let me exhort ye then to open the locks of your hearts with the nail of repentance: burst asunder the fetters of your beloved lusts, mount the chimney of hope, take from hence the bar of good resolution, break through the stone wall of despair, and all the strong holds in the dark entry of the valley of the shadow of death: Raise yourselves to the leads of divine meditation: Fix the blanket of faith with the spike of the church. Let yourselves down to the turner's house of resignation, and descend the stairs of humility: So shall you come to the door of deliverance from the prison of iniquity, and escape the clutches of that old executioner the devil, who goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
(I, p. 410)",,19051,"","""Let me exhort ye then to open the locks of your hearts with the nail of repentance: burst asunder the fetters of your beloved lusts, mount the chimney of hope, take from hence the bar of good resolution, break through the stone wall of despair, and all the strong holds in the dark entry of the valley of the shadow of death.""",Fetters,2011-07-29 15:11:03 UTC,"Volume I, ""Narrative of the Life, Trial, and Execution of John Sheppard, who was hanged for Burglary."""
7128,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-11-23 03:33:49 UTC,"A Man's House may be so fill'd with Furniture, that he shall want Room to stir; and a Man's Head may be so stuff'd with other People's Thoughts, that his own shall be stifled. But moderate Learning, and useful Labour, make a wise and virtuous People; for moderate Learning strengthens the Understanding, and useful Labour suppresses Vice. Too much Eating does not make a Man healthy, and too much Reading does not make him wise. Reflection is the Soul of Study.
(26)",,19326,"","""A Man's House may be so fill'd with Furniture, that he shall want Room to stir; and a Man's Head may be so stuff'd with other People's Thoughts, that his own shall be stifled.""",Rooms,2011-11-23 03:33:49 UTC,"Of Wisdom, Learning, and Good Sense"
7128,"","Found searching in Google Books, but the maxim is, in fact, drawn from Alexander Pope. See Patricia Meyer Spacks, An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1971), 4.",2011-11-23 03:35:44 UTC,"The best Jewellers use the least Silver; and he that will set his Thoughts to Advantage must not over-load them with Words.
The best Way to prove the Clearness of our Mind is by shewing its Faults; as when a Stream discovers the Dirt at the Bottom, it convinces us of the Transparency and Purity of the Water.
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",,19327,"","""The best Way to prove the Clearness of our Mind is by shewing its Faults; as when a Stream discovers the Dirt at the Bottom, it convinces us of the Transparency and Purity of the Water.""","",2017-03-08 20:03:34 UTC,"Of Wisdom, Learning, and Good Sense"
7128,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-11-23 03:52:17 UTC,"Plutarch says, That Grecian and Scholar were Names of Contempt among the Romans, just as the Name of Pedant is among us. I am apt to think that as Plants are choak'd with too much Moisture, and Lamps with too much Oil; so it happens to the Mind of Man, when it is embarass'd with too much Study and Matter; for being confounded with a great Variety of Things, it loses the Power of extricating itself, and so is render'd useless.
(170)",,19340,"","""I am apt to think that as Plants are choak'd with too much Moisture, and Lamps with too much Oil; so it happens to the Mind of Man, when it is embarass'd with too much Study and Matter; for being confounded with a great Variety of Things, it loses the Power of extricating itself, and so is render'd useless.""","",2011-11-23 03:52:17 UTC,Seigneur de Montaigne's Essays
7128,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-11-23 03:55:21 UTC,"Atheism is an Opinion so unnatural and monstrous, that it very hardly gains Admittance into a humane Understanding, though a Man be never so insolent and disorderly. Human Reason and Discourses, are like a confus'd and barren Matter, until the Grace of God puts them in form, which alone gives them Shape and Value.
(174)",,19342,"","""Human Reason and Discourses, are like a confus'd and barren Matter, until the Grace of God puts them in form, which alone gives them Shape and Value.""","",2011-11-23 03:55:21 UTC,Seigneur de Montaigne's Essays
7663,"",Reading,2013-10-01 21:23:53 UTC,"[...] But to proceed with my history; I had not been two days in the stationer's shop, ere eight of my sheets were purchased by a pale and meagre, yet interesting figure of a man, with three half-pence and the pawn of a silver sleeve button, who tucked me between his coat and his shirt (for his full suit of clothes days were over) and glided away from me to a wretched apartment four stories high, with seeming transport. At his entrance, his little deal desk mounted on his only table, stood invitingly before him: there was inspiration in the sight; he snatched wildly a cracked ink-horn from a shelf which contained nothing else, but a few mouldy crusts, and a few mouldy books; flourished his pen, looked up a moment with a fixed and raptured eye, then pulled eagerly one of my sheets from its concealment, cried vehemently 'I have it,' and instantly laying me prostrate before him, began to trace in black characters on my body, the ideas that laboured in his mind. In short, from this exalted station, I took my first flight as an essay on wealth, which my hungry maker sold for the prodigious sum fo then shillings to the editor of a fashionable magazine, and really seemed to think he had realized his own warm description, while so many splendid pieces were paying into his pennyless palm.
(p. 36)",,22908,"","""At his entrance, his little deal desk mounted on his only table, stood invitingly before him: there was inspiration in the sight; he snatched wildly a cracked ink-horn from a shelf which contained nothing else, but a few mouldy crusts, and a few mouldy books; flourished his pen, looked up a moment with a fixed and raptured eye, then pulled eagerly one of my sheets from its concealment, cried vehemently 'I have it,' and instantly laying me prostrate before him, began to trace in black characters on my body, the ideas that laboured in his mind.""","",2013-10-01 21:23:53 UTC,""