work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3271,"","Searching ""engrav"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-03-08 00:00:00 UTC,"I Love my God, and freely too,
With the Same Love that he imparts;
That He, to Whom all Love is due,
Engraves upon pure loving Hearts.
(pp. 191, ll. 1-4)",2009-03-06,8532,"","""That He, to Whom all Love is due, / Engraves upon pure loving Hearts.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:33:37 UTC,""
5316,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Prose)",2004-05-27 00:00:00 UTC,What gratitude do we not owe to heaven! may the sense of it be for ever engraven on our hearts!,,14276,"","""What gratitude do we not owe to heaven! may the sense of it be for ever engraven on our hearts!""",Writing,2013-06-27 19:53:48 UTC,"Volume IV, Letter 222"
5344,Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"That the mind of man, previous to the information of the senses, is a tabula rasa, a blank, without ideas, without knowledge, is a doctrine too well supported by this great master of reason to suffer a shock. It has been, notwithstanding, attacked with arguments drawn from professor Saunderson, who excelled in the mathematics, and was acquainted with the properties of cones, cylinders, squares, circles, &c. though blind from a year old.
(p. 135n)",,14333,"•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Blank
•Note to line ""Locke's observations ... the impossibilty of having any ideas without the previous action of the organs of the body, and the like demonstrable doctrines"" (135)","""That the mind of man, previous to the information of the senses, is a tabula rasa, a blank, without ideas, without knowledge, is a doctrine too well supported by this great master of reason to suffer a shock.""",Metaphor,2014-09-01 18:22:52 UTC,Chapter XIV. On Conjectural Metaphysics
5347,Blank Slate,"Searching ""mind"" and ""blank"" in HDIS (poetry)",2005-03-02 00:00:00 UTC,"Some, whose blank minds, no spark of mercy knew,
To horrid deeds of desperation slow,
And driv'n by hot-brain'd frenzy not a few,
To lift their hands, and strike the fatal blow.
",,14337,"","There are ""Some, whose blank minds, no spark of mercy knew.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:40:38 UTC,""
5351,"",Reading in Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).,2004-01-26 00:00:00 UTC,"As the Wax would not be adequate to its business of Signature, had it not a Power to retain, as well as to receive; the same holds of the SOUL, with respect to Sense and Imagination. SENSE is its receptive Power; IMAGINATION, its retentive. Had it Sense without Imagination, it would not be as Wax, but as Water, where tho' all Impressions may be instantly made, yet as soon as made they are as instantly lost.
(Book III, ch. iv, pp. 356-7)",,14341,"•INTEREST. USE IN ENTRY? Cross-reference: Blair cites this passage in his Lectures in a discussion a explanatory comparisons: ""In Comparisons of this nature, the understanding is concerned much more than the fancy: and therefore the only rules to be observed, with respect to them are, that they be clear, and that they be useful; that they tend to render our conception of the principal object more distinct; and that they do not lead our view aside, and bewilder it with any false light"" (Lect. xvii, p. 407).","""As the Wax would not be adequate to its business of Signature, had it not a Power to retain, as well as to receive; the same holds of the SOUL, with respect to Sense and Imagination.""",Impressions and Writing,2013-10-09 03:26:02 UTC,""
5364,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"[...] The wise Man recommends that children should be accustomed to the yoke from their infancy; and St. Paul frequently exhorts parents to teach and admonish their children:--a practice unquestionably right, upon every idea of the human mind. For were that mind, what some suppose, a mere tabula rasa upon its first coming into the world, a pure and perfect blank, without one single impression; who can deny that it would be right, that it would be humane and wise, to make, in the earliest moments, those impressions upon it, which long and careful experience hath proved to be just in themselves, and advantageous in their consequences?
But when we are taught from divine revelation that this ideas of the soul is groundless; when we are assured from thence, that the human mind is corrupt and prone to evil, a truth to which we ourselves must daily bear [end page 6] ample testimony: it becomes, in this view, a duty of the highest importance; nay, I will add, of the tenderest humanity, early to supply the infant mind with such maxims, as may prove a sufficient bias to the corruption of its nature, and enable it, through divine grace, to continue steadfast in the practice of virtue.
(pp. 6-7)",,14372,•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Blank,"""For were that mind, what some suppose, a mere tabula rasa upon its first coming into the world, a pure and perfect blank, without one single impression; who can deny that it would be right, that it would be humane and wise, to make, in the earliest moments, those impressions upon it, which long and careful experience hath proved to be just in themselves, and advantageous in their consequences?""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:40:43 UTC,Sermon I
6366,Blank Slate,"Searching ""soul"" and ""blank"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again searching ""paper""",2005-03-07 00:00:00 UTC,"Strong Passions draw, like Horses that are strong,
The Body-Coach of Flesh and Blood along;
While subtle Reason, with each Rein in Hand,
Sits on the Box, and has them at Command;
Rais'd up aloft, to see and to be seen,
Judges the Track, and guides the gay Machine.
But was it made for nothing else beside
Passions to draw, and Reason to be Guide?
Was so much Art employ'd to drag and drive
Nothing within the Vehicle alive?
No seated Mind, that claims the moving Pew,
Master of Passions, and of Reason too?
The grand Contrivance why so well equip
With strength of Passions, rul'd by Reason's Whip?
Vainly profuse had Apparatus been,
Did not a reigning Spirit rest within;
Which Passions carry, and sound Reason means
To render present at pre-order'd Scenes.
They who are loud in human Reason's Praise,
And celebrate the Drivers of our Days,
Seem to suppose, by their continual Bawl,
That Passions, Reason, and Machine, is all;
To them the Windows are drawn up, and clear
Nothing that does not outwardly appear.
Matter and Motion, and superior Man
By Head and Shoulders, form their reas'ning Plan.
View'd and demurely ponder'd, as they roll,
And scoring Traces on the Paper Soul,
Blank, shaven white, they fill th' unfurnish'd Pate
With new Idéas, none of them innate.
When these Adepts are got upon a Box,
Away they gallop thro' the gazing Flocks;
Trappings admir'd, and the high-mettl'd Brute
And Reason balancing its either Foot;
While seeing Eyes discern, at their Approach,
Fulness of Skill, and emptiness of Coach.
'Tis very well that lively Passions draw,
That sober Reason keeps them all in Awe,--
The one to run, the other to control,
And drive directly to the destin'd Goal.
""What Goal?""--Ay, there the Question should begin:
What Spirit drives the willing Mind within?
Sense, Reason, Passions, and the like, are still
One self-same Man, whose Action is his Will;
Whose Will, if right, will soon renounce the Pride
Of an own Reason for an only Guide;
As God's unerring Spirit shall inspire,
Will still direct the Drift of his Desire.",2012-07-05,16837,•INTEREST. Rich poem. Should spend more time with it.,"Materialist philosophers describe ""scoring Traces on the Paper Soul, / Blank, shaven white, they fill th' unfurnish'd Pate / With new Idéas, none of them innate.""",Writing,2012-07-05 04:52:50 UTC,""
6939,"",Reading,2011-06-16 16:34:40 UTC,"Though you are so happy as to have parents, who are both capable and desirous of giving you all proper instruction, yet I, who love you so tenderly, cannot help fondly wishing to contribute something, if possible, to your improvement and welfare: and, as I am so far separated from you, that it is only by pen and ink I can offer you my sentiments, I will hope that your attention may be engaged, by seeing on paper, from the hand of one of your warmest friends, Truths of the highest importance, which, though you may not find new, can never be too deeply engraven on your mind. Some of them perhaps may make no great impression at present, and yet may so far gain a place in your memory as readily to return to your thoughts when occasion recalls them. And, if you pay me the compliment of preserving my letters, you may possibly re-peruse them at some future period, when concurring circumstances may give them additional weight:—and thus they may prove more effectual than the same things spoken in conversation. But, however this may prove, I cannot resist the desire of trying in some degree to be useful to you on your setting out in a life of trial and difficulty; your success in which must determine your fate for ever.
(I, pp. 1-3)",,18683,"pp. 1-2 in PGDP edition
","""Though you are so happy as to have parents, who are both capable and desirous of giving you all proper instruction, yet I, who love you so tenderly, cannot help fondly wishing to contribute something, if possible, to your improvement and welfare: and, as I am so far separated from you, that it is only by pen and ink I can offer you my sentiments, I will hope that your attention may be engaged, by seeing on paper, from the hand of one of your warmest friends, Truths of the highest importance, which, though you may not find new, can never be too deeply engraven on your mind.""",Writing,2011-06-16 16:41:46 UTC,"Volume I, Letter 1"
6939,"",Reading,2011-06-16 16:41:03 UTC,"The great laws of morality are indeed written in our hearts, and may be discovered by reason: but our reason is of slow growth, very unequally dispensed to different persons, liable to error, and confined within very narrow limits in all. If, therefore, God vouchsafed to grant a particular revelation of his will--if he has been so unspeakably gracious, as to send his Son into the world to reclaim mankind from error and wickedness--to die for our sins--and to teach us the way to eternal life--surely it becomes us to receive his precepts with the deepest reverence; to love and prize them above all things; and to study them constantly, with an earnest desire to conform our thoughts, our words, and actions to them.
(I, p. 21-3)",,18684,p. 11 in PGDP edition,"""The great laws of morality are indeed written in our hearts, and may be discovered by reason: but our reason is of slow growth, very unequally dispensed to different persons, liable to error, and confined within very narrow limits in all.""",Writing,2011-06-16 16:41:03 UTC,"Volume I, Letter 1"
6939,"",Reading,2011-06-16 17:14:22 UTC,"Chronology may be naturally divided into three parts, the Ancient--the Middle--and the Modern. With respect to all these, the best direction that can be given is to fix on some periods or epochas, which, by being often mentioned and thought of, explained and referred to, will at last be so deeply engraven on the memory, that they will be ready to present themselves whenever you call for them: these indeed should be few, and ought to be well chosen for their importance, since they are to serve as elevated stations to the mind, from which it may look backwards and forwards upon a great variety of facts.
(II, pp. 155-6)",,18697,pp. 173-4 in PGDP,"""With respect to all these, the best direction that can be given is to fix on some periods or epochas, which, by being often mentioned and thought of, explained and referred to, will at last be so deeply engraven on the memory, that they will be ready to present themselves whenever you call for them.""",Writing,2011-06-16 17:14:22 UTC,"Volume II, Letter 9"