work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3405,"","Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 122.",2006-10-04 00:00:00 UTC,"when thy book (the history of thy life,) is torn, 1000. sins of thine own torn out of thy memory, wilt thou then present thy self thus defac'd and mangled to almighty God?",,8696,•,"""when thy book (the history of thy life,) is torn, 1000. sins of thine own torn out of thy memory, wilt thou then present thy self thus defac'd and mangled to almighty God?""","",2009-09-14 19:33:43 UTC,""
3433,"","Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 113.",2006-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,Then the bookes of conscience shall be opened. Then shall the dead be judged by those thinges which are written in the booke: for theyr works do folow them.,,8743,"","""Then the bookes of conscience shall be opened. Then shall the dead be judged by those thinges which are written in the booke: for theyr works do folow them.""","",2009-09-14 19:33:44 UTC,""
3445,Blank Slate,"Reading Maclean, Kenneth. John Locke and English Literature of the Eighteenth Century (New York: Russell & Russell, Inc., 1962), 32.
Found again reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996), 122. And again in Neal Wood's ""Tabula Rasa, Social Environmentalism, and the 'English Paradigm'."" Journal of the History of Ideas 53.4 (1992): 647-68, pp. 652-3. See also Robert K. Faulkner, ""Reason and Revelation in Hooker's Ethics"" The American Political Science Review 59:3 (1965): 680-90, p. 658.
",2005-03-27 00:00:00 UTC,"In the matter of knowledge, there is between the angels of God and the children of men this difference: angels already have full and complete knowledge in the highest degree that can be imparted unto them; men, if we view them in their spring, are at the first without understanding or knowledge at all. Nevertheless from this utter vacuity they grow by degrees, till they come at length to be even as the angels themselves are. That which agreeth to the one now, the other shall attain unto in the end; they are not so far disjoined and severed, but that they come at length to meet. The soul of man being therefore at the first as a book, wherein nothing is and yet all things may be imprinted; we are to search by what steps and degrees it riseth unto perfection of knowledge.
(I.vi.1)",2011-06-21,8759,"•The Hooker is cited in Wood, Kiefer, and Maclean. -- Faulkner talks about the metaphoricity of Hooker's writing on conscience and the ""law of reason.""
•Section title: Man first beginning to grow to the knowledge of that law which they are to observe
•Locke cites from this same section in Essay (IV.xvii.7). Maclean, following Fraser, suggests, ""Locke may have noted a similar [tabular rasa] expression in the 'judicious' Hooker's Ecclesiasticall Politie (1594), where the soul of man is described ""as a book wherein nothing is, and yet all things may be imprinted"" (32).
• Reviewed 2006-10-04
•Cutting original text and replacing with OLL for conformity to other collected metaphors:
6. In the matter of knowledge, there is betweene the Angels of God and the children of men this difference. Angels alreadie have full and complete knowledge in the highest degree that can be imparted unto them: men, if wee view them in their spring, are at first without understanding or knowledge at all. Neverthelesse from this utter vacuitie they growe by degrees, till they come at length to be even as Angels themselves are. That which agreeth to the one now, the other shall attaine unto in the ende; they are not so farre disjoyned and severed, but that they come at length to meete. The soul of man being therefore at the first as a book, wherein nothing is, and yet all thinges may be imprinted; we are to search by what steps and degrees it riseth unto perfection of knowledge. [...]
(I.vi, p. 47)","""The soul of man being therefore at the first as a book, wherein nothing is and yet all things may be imprinted; we are to search by what steps and degrees it riseth unto perfection of knowledge.""",Writing,2012-05-16 18:43:45 UTC,"Book I, Chapter vi. "
3463,"","Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996), p. 118-9.",2006-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,"This Scripture [Proverbs 18:14] is not only worthie to be graven in steele with the pen of an Adamant, and to be written in letters of gold: but also to bee laid up and registred by the finger of Gods spirit in the tables of our hearts.
(233).",,8848,"","""This Scripture [Proverbs 18:14] is not only worthie to be graven in steele with the pen of an Adamant, and to be written in letters of gold: but also to bee laid up and registred by the finger of Gods spirit in the tables of our hearts.""",Writing,2013-06-12 14:01:44 UTC,""
3481,Innate Ideas,"Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 118.",2006-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,"There is a ground or principle written in every mans heart in the world, none excepted, that there is a God.
(212)",,8936,•REVISIT and fill out citation,"""There is a ground or principle written in every mans heart in the world, none excepted, that there is a God.""","",2009-09-14 19:33:52 UTC,""
3529,"",Reading Yolton's Locke Dictionary (101),2005-03-28 00:00:00 UTC,"",,9105,"•ODNB describes as a ""treatise on justification.""","The law of nature is ""written in the hearts of all men""","",2009-09-14 19:33:58 UTC,""
3542,"","Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 113.",2006-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,Our conscience ... is a great Ledgier booke wherein are written all our offences,,9136,"",""" It was (as I said) once well agreeing with reason, and there was an excellent consent and harmony between them, but that is now dissolved, they often jar, reason is overborne by passion: Fertur equis auriga, nec audit currus habenas, as so many wild horses run away with a chariot, and will not be curbed.""","",2009-09-14 19:33:59 UTC,""
6660,"",Reading,2010-01-11 20:31:03 UTC,"The manner that conscience vseth in giuing testimonie standes in two things. First it obserues and takes notice of all things that we doe: secondly, it doth inwardly and secretly within the heart, tell vs of them all. In this respect it may fitly be compared to a notarie, or a register that hath alwaies the penne in his hand, to note and record whatsoeuer is saide or done: who also because he keepes the rolles and records of the court, can tell what hath bin said and done many hundred yeares past.
(pp. 7-8)",,17633,"","""In this respect [conscience] may fitly be compared to a notarie, or a register that hath alwaies the penne in his hand, to note and record whatsoeuer is saide or done: who also because he keepes the rolles and records of the court, can tell what hath bin said and done many hundred yeares past.""",Court,2010-01-11 20:33:14 UTC,CAP. II. Of the duties of conscience.
6696,"",Reading,2010-04-14 18:55:22 UTC,"But, my son, if I should ask you to grapple immediately with the bewildering complexities of experimental science before your mind has been purged of its idols, beyond a peradventure you would promptly desert your leader. Nor, even if you wished to do so, could you rid yourself of idols by simply taking my advice without familiarising yourself with nature. On waxen tablets you cannot write anything new until you rub out the old. With the mind it is not so; there you cannot rub out the old till you have written in the new. Nay, though you might possibly divest yourself of the idols of the inn, there would be every fear of your falling victim to the idols of the road, unless you were prepared. You have become too accustomed to following a guide. At Rome, too, when tyranny was once in the saddle, the oath of allegiance to the Senate and the People became a vain thing. Take heart, then, my son, and give yourself to me so that I may restore you to yourself.
(p. 72)",,17786,"An example of disanalogy. Note, You need both sentences to make the figuration work. ","""On waxen tablets you cannot write anything new until you rub out the old. With the mind it is not so; there you cannot rub out the old till you have written in the new.""","",2010-04-14 18:55:22 UTC,Chapter 2
3535,"",Reading in EEBO,2011-09-28 02:16:33 UTC,"As in the knowledge of Diuine Mysteries, Implicit Fayth is the highway to perdition, so in humane learning, nothing giues a greater checke to the progresse of an Art, then to beleeue it is already perfected and consummated by those which went before vs; and therfore to rest our selues in their determinations. For if the ancient Philosophers and Artists had contented themselues to walke onely in the Tracke of their predecessours, and had limited their Noble wits within other mens bounds, the Father had neuer brought foorth the Daughter, neuer had Time broght Truth to light, which vpon the fall of Adam was chained in the deepe Abysse. There is, as of the World and gouernement thereof, so of arts a frame, the matter whereof comes downe from heauen, but is gathered heere by discourse of reason and experience. The beauty and glory of whose Columns wer not perfected in one age, but the ground worke was first laid in the times which were neerest to the Originall of Nature; afterward addition was continually made by the vigour of the soule of Man, and shall be vnto the end of the world. It were not hard to giue instances heereof in all arts, nor happely would it be very tedious; but it shal bee sufficient (to auoyd prolixity) to insist a little vpon generals, and so descend vnto our owne art we haue in hand. The first man (saith the Diuine story) saw all the Creatures, and gaue them names according to their Natures, but that Sun-shine was soone clouded, that Image defaced, that stampe battered by his fall. Afterwards, as a Marchant that had lost all his inheritance in one bottome, he was to begin the world anew, and to gather an estate or stocke of knowledge, by the trauell and industry of his soule and body; yet was not his soule Abrasa Tabula, a playned Table, there remained some Lineaments which the Scripture calleth The Lawe of Nature; not such as could exhibite any sufficient originall knowledge, but such as whereby, hauing gotten knowledge from without himselfe, might make him again acknowledge the darke and defaced foot-steppes that remained in himselfe, and to polish and refresh them somewhat, though it was impossible to reduce them to the former perfection. Thus the soule by discourse of reason, that is, by her owne acte, knewe her naturall immortality, and by induction of particulars, came to informe her selfe of the Natures of other things: not as she knew before, from the vniuersall to particulars, but by gathering particulars together to frame generall and vniuersall notions.
(I, 36)
",,19229,Fascinating... Reads like a plot summary of Robinson Crusoe.,"""Afterwards, as a Merchant that had lost all his inheritance in one bottom, he was to begin the world anew, and to gather an estate or stock of knowledge, by the travel and industry of his soul and body; yet was not his soul Abrasa Tabula, a playned Table, there remained some Lineaments which the Scripture calleth The Law of Nature; not such as could exhibit any sufficient original knowledge, but such as whereby, having gotten knowledge from without himself, might make him again acknowledge the dark and defaced foot-steps that remained in himself, and to polish and refresh them somewhat, though it was impossible to reduce them to the former perfection.""",Writing,2011-09-28 02:16:33 UTC,"Book I, Dilucidation, Preface"