work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6462,"",Reading in ECCO,2008-10-06 00:00:00 UTC,"Oh, Sterne! thou art scabby, and such is the leprosy of thy mind that it is not to be cured like the leprosy of the body, by dipping nine times in the river Jordan. Thy prophane history of Tristram Shandy is as it were an anti-gospel, and seems to have been penned by the hand of Antichrist himself; it tends to excite laughter, but you should remember that the wisest man that ever was, that the great king Solomon himself said of laughter "" it is mad,"" and of mirth ""what doth it?"" Sterne! (for brother I can no longer call [end page 2] thee, though I look upon the clergy of the Church of England as my brethren, when they discharge conscientiously the duties of their function) Sterne , apostate Sterne! if Solomon was now alive, he would not put the question ""What doth mirth."" Thy book would fully shew him, that mirth is nearly akin to wickedness, and that the tickling of laughter is occasioned but the obscene Devil.
(pp. 3-4)",,17186,"","""Oh, Sterne! thou art scabby, and such is the leprosy of thy mind that it is not to be cured like the leprosy of the body, by dipping nine times in the river Jordan.""",Disease,2011-08-25 16:02:47 UTC,""
7175,"",Reading,2012-01-23 22:11:17 UTC,"When the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Ezek. 18. 27.
I acknowledge my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me. Psalm 51. 3.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Psalm 51. 9.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psalm 51. 17.
Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Joel 2. 13.
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against him: neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he set before us. Dan. 9. 9, 10. [...]
(p. iv)",,19519,"","""Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.""","",2012-01-23 22:11:54 UTC,"Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer"
7175,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-01-23 22:13:09 UTC,"For the Epistle. JOEL 2. 12
Turn ye even to me, saith the Lord, with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Who knoweth if he will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meat-offering and a drink- offering unto the Lord your God? Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
",,19520,"","""And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.""","",2012-01-23 22:14:26 UTC,The First Day of Lent
7175,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-01-23 22:16:08 UTC,"The Epistle. EPHES. 4. 17.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole, steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good, to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
",,19521,"","""This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.""","",2012-01-23 22:16:08 UTC,The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity
7175,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-01-23 22:16:59 UTC,"PSAL.39. Dixi,Custodiam.
I said, I will take heed to my ways: that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle: while the ungodly is in my sight.
I held my tongue, and spake nothing: I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me.
My heart was hot within me; and while I was thus musing the fire kindled: and at the last I spake with my tongue;
Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.
",,19522,"","""My heart was hot within me; and while I was thus musing the fire kindled: and at the last I spake with my tongue.""","",2012-01-23 22:16:59 UTC,The Order of the Burial of the Dead
7175,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-01-23 22:18:40 UTC,"PSAL. 40. Expectans expectavi.
Waited patiently for the Lord: and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling.
2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay: and set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth: even a thanksgiving unto our God. 4 Many shall see it, and fear: and shall put their trust in the Lord.
5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord: and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies.
6 O Lord my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts which are to us-ward: and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee:
7 If I should declare them, and speak of them: they should be more than I am able to express.
8 Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not: but mine ears hast thou opened.
9 Burnt-offerings, and sacrifice for sin, hast thou not required: then said I, Lo, I come,
10 In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O my God: I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart.
11 I have declared thy righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, and that thou knowest.
12 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart: my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation.
13 I have not kept back thy loving mercy and truth: from the great congregation.
14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me, O Lord: let thy loving-kindness and thy truth alway preserve me.
15 For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up: yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.[...]
",,19523,"","""In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O my God: I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart.""",Court,2012-01-23 22:18:40 UTC,The 8. Day. Psalms.
7175,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-01-23 22:20:01 UTC,"PSAL. 63. Deus, Deus meus.
O God, thou art my God: early will I seek thee.
2 My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee: in a barren and dry land, where no water is.
3 Thus have I looked for thee in holiness: that I might behold thy power and glory. [...]
",,19524,"","""My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee: in a barren and dry land, where no water is.""","",2012-01-23 22:20:01 UTC,The 12. Day. Psalms.
7175,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-01-23 22:21:13 UTC,"Adhæsit pavimento.
My soul cleaveth to the dust: O quicken thou me, according to thy word.
2 I have acknowledged my ways, and thou heardest me: O teach me thy statutes.
3 Make me to understand the way of thy commandments: and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
4 My soul melteth away for very heaviness: comfort thou me according unto thy word.
5 Take from me the way of lying: and cause thou me to make much of thy law.
6 I have chosen the way of truth: and thy judgments have I laid before me.
7 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, confound me not.
8 I will run the way of thy commandments: when thou hast set my heart at liberty.
",,19525,"","""My soul melteth away for very heaviness: comfort thou me according unto thy word.""","",2012-01-23 22:21:13 UTC,Psalms. the 24. Day.
7175,"",Reading in Google Books,2012-01-23 22:22:55 UTC,"PSAL. 124. Nisi quia Dominus.
If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say: if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us;
2 They had swallowed us up quick: when thy were so wrathfully displeased at us.
3 Yea, the waters had drowned us: and the stream had gone over our soul.
4 The deep waters of the proud: had gone even over our soul.
5 But praised be the Lord: who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.
6 Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord: who hath made heaven and earth.
(pp. 52-3)",,19526,"","""Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.""","",2012-01-23 22:22:55 UTC,The 27. Day. Psalms.
8272,"",Reading at The Yale Digital Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. ,2018-04-17 17:08:49 UTC,"The difficulty of obtaining knowledge is universally confessed. To fix deeply in the mind the principles of science, to settle their limitations, and deduce the long succession of their consequences; to comprehend the whole compass of complicated systems, with all the arguments, objections, and solutions, and to reposite in the intellectual treasury the numberless facts, experiments, apophthegms, and positions which must stand single in the memory, and of which none has any perceptible connection with the rest, is a task which, tho' undertaken with ardour and pursued with diligence, must at last be left unfinished by the frailty of our nature.",,25173,"","""To fix deeply in the mind the principles of science, to settle their limitations, and deduce the long succession of their consequences; to comprehend the whole compass of complicated systems, with all the arguments, objections, and solutions, and to reposite in the intellectual treasury the numberless facts, experiments, apophthegms, and positions which must stand single in the memory, and of which none has any perceptible connection with the rest, is a task which, tho' undertaken with ardour and pursued with diligence, must at last be left unfinished by the frailty of our nature.""","",2018-04-17 17:08:49 UTC,""