work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6665,"","Reading Whitman, James Q. The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial. Yale UP, 2008. p. 170. <Link to Google Books>",2010-01-13 20:08:54 UTC,"Secondly, the law of judging according to allegations and proofs is a good generall direction in the common course of proceedings; but there are cases wherein this law must vaile to an higher, which is the law of Conscience: Woe be to that man who shall tye himselfe so close to the letter of the law, as to make shipwrack of conscience; And that bird in his bosome will tell him, that if upon what ever pretences, he shall willingly condemne an innocent, he is no better than a murtherer.
(p. 119)",,17672,"","""[T]here are cases wherein this law must vaile to an higher, which is the law of Conscience: Woe be to that man who shall tye himselfe so close to the letter of the law, as to make shipwrack of conscience; And that bird in his bosome will tell him, that if upon what ever pretences, he shall willingly condemne an innocent, he is no better than a murtherer.""","",2010-01-13 20:08:54 UTC,Case VI
7390,"",Reading,2013-05-16 16:29:51 UTC,"[...] For if the soule by reason of sympathizing with the body is either made an [Greek] or a [Greek] either a nimble swift-footed Achilles, or a limping slow Odysseus, as hereafter we intend to declare, good reason the body (as the edifice or handmaid of the soule) should be knowne as a part of Teipsum for the good of the soule. Therefore Iulian the Apostata who had flood of inuentiō, although that whole flood could not wash or rinch away that one spot of his atheisme, he (though not knowing him a right) could say the body was the chariot of the soule, which while it was well manag'd by discretion the cunning coachman, the drawing steeds, that is our head-strong and vntamed appetites, being checkt in by the golden bit of temperance, so long the soule should not bee tost in craggy waies by vnequall and tottring motion, much lesse be in danger to bee hurled downe the steepy hils of perditiō. [...]
(Chapter I)",,20180,"","""Therefore Iulian the Apostata who had flood of inuention, although that whole flood could not wash or rinch away that one spot of his atheisme, he (though not knowing him a right) could say the body was the chariot of the soule, which while it was well manag'd by discretion the cunning coachman, the drawing steeds, that is our head-strong and vntamed appetites, being checkt in by the golden bit of temperance, so long the soule should not bee tost in craggy waies by vnequall and tottring motion, much lesse be in danger to bee hurled downe the steepy hils of perdition.""",Animals,2013-05-16 16:29:51 UTC,Chapter I
8129,"",Reading,2016-02-18 02:49:16 UTC,"Fancy.
The roving, pregnant, busie, teeming sence,
The souls mint. The forge of shapes and dreams,
Commanding Empress of the brain, ubiquitary, faculty.
The immateriall Coyner. That makes a bodilesse Creation.
Bounldesse, restlesse faculty, free from all engagements, digg• without spade, sails without Ships, Flies without wings, builds without charges, fights without bloodshed, in a moment striding from the Center to the circumference of the world, by a kind of omnipotency creating and annihilating things in a moment, and marryng things divorced in nature.",,24811,"","The fancy is a ""Boundlesse, restlesse faculty, free from all engagements, diggs without spade, sails without Ships, Flies without wings, builds without charges, fights without bloodshed, in a moment striding from the Center to the circumference of the world, by a kind of omnipotency creating and annihilating things in a moment, and marryng things divorced in nature.""","",2016-02-18 02:49:37 UTC,""