work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3278,"","Reading. Discussed in Ian Watt's Rise of the Novel (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957), 191. But see Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook's Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996), 86. See also Joe Bray's The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), 8.",2005-03-25 00:00:00 UTC,"In a man's letters, you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
(II, pp. 14-15 in Thrale)",2009-03-04,8539,"•REVISIT. The letter is metaphorized not what's within the breast! INTEREST. A metaphor of mind metaphorized.
•I've included twice: Body and Mirror
•Note, E. Cook thinks Watt has this exactly wrong: ""Johnson is ironically citing an 'idée reçue' here in order to undermine it""
•Was citing p. 519? (of what?)
","""In a man's letters, you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process.""",Mirror,2013-10-12 03:56:47 UTC,To Hester Thrale
7060,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-08-01 20:23:11 UTC,"But this unrighteous traffick in human blood is not more destructive to those concerned, in it, than disgraceful to the religion they profess, and so the nation which tolerates their crimes. By their means the holy name of Jesus is blasphemed, and an invincible obstacle thrown in the way, to hinder the glorious Gospel of Christ from being received by these Heathens. Darkness is not more opposite to light than the principles of this traffick to the spirit of Christianity. That commands us ""to preach good tidings unto the meek;"" but these men deliberately withhold from their Slaves all rational instruction, and all religious improvement. The Prince of Peace sends us ""to bind up the broken-hearted;"" but these men bow down their fellow-creatures by oppression, and ""regard not the cry of the poor destitute."" The spirit of the Gospel ""proclaims liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound:"" but these men rivet the chains of slavery; ""the iron enters into the Negro's soul,"" while while his mind is left in all the darkness of ignorance, without one ray of those comforts which Christianity affords, to strengthen with patience, and to animate with hope, them that endure affliction, suffering wrongfully.
(pp. 22-4)",,19083,"","""The spirit of the Gospel 'proclaims liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound:' but these men rivet the chains of slavery; 'the iron enters into the Negro's soul,' while while his mind is left in all the darkness of ignorance, without one ray of those comforts which Christianity affords, to strengthen with patience, and to animate with hope, them that endure affliction, suffering wrongfully.""",Fetters and Metal,2013-09-23 18:14:52 UTC,""
7702,"","Searching ""mind"" in Google Books",2013-10-12 04:26:45 UTC,"I do not exhort you to reason yourself into tranquillity. We must first pray, and then
labour; first implore the blessing of God, and those means which he puts into our hands. Cultivated ground has few weeds; a mind occupied by lawful business, has little room for useless regret.
(p 192)
",,22935,"","""Cultivated ground has few weeds; a mind occupied by lawful business, has little room for useless regret.""","",2013-10-12 04:26:45 UTC,"Letter CCLVII. To Mrs. Thrale (April 5, 1781)
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7870,"",Reading,2014-04-24 01:03:48 UTC,"The apostle well knew, by his own experience, that Satan would lay strong siege to such souls; and he knew for a truth that, if one sin found acceptance and entertainment in the soul, that sin when it had engrossed the affections, would let in many more, and consequently leave a gap, or breach, for a whole troop of specious sins to follow.
(pp. 5-6)",,23790,"","""The apostle well knew, by his own experience, that Satan would lay strong siege to such souls; and he knew for a truth that, if one sin found acceptance and entertainment in the soul, that sin when it had engrossed the affections, would let in many more, and consequently leave a gap, or breach, for a whole troop of specious sins to follow.""",Empire,2014-04-24 01:03:48 UTC,""
7870,"",Reading,2014-04-24 01:05:02 UTC,"When this is the case the hedge (to our feelings) is broken down, and we lie exposed to every temptation; as says the Psalmist--Why hast thou broken down her hedges, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her? Psal. lxxx. 12. When thus entangled we try to resist, but are still rebuffed or beaten back; this causes rebellion and murmuring to take possession of our hearts; and it is thus that the foolishness of man perverteth his way, and his heart fretteth against the Lord. Prov. xix. 3.
(p. 6)",,23791,"","""When this is the case the hedge (to our feelings) is broken down, and we lie exposed to every temptation; as says the Psalmist--'Why hast thou broken down her hedges, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?' Psal. lxxx. 12""","",2014-04-24 01:05:29 UTC,""
7870,"",Reading,2014-04-24 01:06:45 UTC,"When this is the case the hedge (to our feelings) is broken down, and we lie exposed to every temptation; as says the Psalmist--Why hast thou broken down her hedges, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her? Psal. lxxx. 12. When thus entangled we try to resist, but are still rebuffed or beaten back; this causes rebellion and murmuring to take possession of our hearts; and it is thus that the foolishness of man perverteth his way, and his heart fretteth against the Lord. Prov. xix. 3.
(p. 6)",,23792,"",""" When thus entangled we try to resist, but are still rebuffed or beaten back; this causes rebellion and murmuring to take possession of our hearts.""","",2014-04-24 01:06:45 UTC,""
7870,"",Reading,2014-04-24 01:07:59 UTC,"The apostle desires that Christ, as their king, might have his laws loved, obeyed, and meditated on in their minds; and, as king of righteousness, that his blessed sceptre might be swayed in their affections and consciences; and as he was their atoning Saviour, that peace and pardon might be sensibly enjoyed in their souls; and that the altogether lovely Saviour might be enthroned, exalted, and admired, in the throne of their hearts--That Christ, said he, may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye may be rooted and grounded in love. ver. 17.
(p. 8)",,23793,"","""[A]nd that the altogether lovely Saviour might be enthroned, exalted, and admired, in the throne of their hearts""","",2014-04-24 01:07:59 UTC,""
7870,"","Reading E.P. Thompson's Witness Against the Beast (New York: New Press, 1993), 7.",2014-04-24 01:09:42 UTC,"But his spiritual kingdom is not of this world; the throne of grace is in heaven; his laws are from heaven, and written in the minds of all his subjects; his sceptre is swayed over every justified soul that believes in his name for justification, and takes him for his everlasting righteousness and strength; his kingdom is set up in the souls of believers, as it is written--The kingdom of God is within you. This kingdom is altogether spiritual; for the kingdom is not in word, but in power; it is righteousness, peace, and joy, in the Holy Ghost. Thus, my friends, the Saviour's laws are written within us, and he must have the pre-eminence in our affections, and sway his peaceable sceptre in our consciences, which I trust is our soul's delight. But, if we speak of this, it appears a bane to the world; they cannot endure his binding laws; therefore they say--Break his bonds asunder, and cast away his cords from us. But why? What are his cords and bands, that are so offensive to those, who are so violent? Why one of the bonds is the binding cord of everlasting love, which the carnal mind, fortified with infernal enmity, cannot brook; as it is written--The carnal mind is enmity against God; it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. The other bond is the bond of gospel peace; as it is written--Keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. But the sinner had rather have peace with his sins, and continue to maintain war with God than cast down his rebellious arms, and send an ambassage, desiring conditions of peace. The other cord or girdle is truth, intended to gird up the loins of the mind, in order to make the sinner watch and be sober.
(pp. 9-10)",,23794,"","""But his spiritual kingdom is not of this world; the throne of grace is in heaven; his laws are from heaven, and written in the minds of all his subjects.""","",2014-04-24 01:09:42 UTC,""