updated_at,reviewed_on,context,comments,theme,id,text,provenance,created_at,work_id,metaphor,dictionary
2009-09-14 19:33:33 UTC,2006-10-16,Section 42. Des Passion En Général,"•No apparent English translation? 1797 French edition, pub. in Paris found by PNH
•BMP found edition Hirschman consults. Filled in info.","",8409,"Les passions s'opposent aux passions, et peuvent se servir de contrepoids; mais la passion dominante ne peut se conduire que par son propre intérêt, vrai ou imaginaire, parce que'elle règne despotiquement sur la volonté, sans laquelle rien ne se peut.
(p. 239)","Reading A. O. Hirschman's The Passions and the Interests. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997. p. 27.",2003-10-20 00:00:00 UTC,3189,"""Passions are opposed to passions and one can serve as a counterweight to another.""",""
2009-09-14 19:33:39 UTC,2007-04-26,"","","",8581,[self-interest is the strongest monarch in the world]
l'interêt est le plus grande monarque de la Terre,Reading Pocock's Machiavellian Moment (465n),2005-05-02 00:00:00 UTC,3314,"""l'interêt est le plus grande monarque de la Terre"" [Self-interest is the strongest monarch in the world]",Ruler
2013-09-29 22:23:31 UTC,,"","•Is this dated correctly? George Canning in ODNB is (1770-1827). Must be another writer.
REVISIT... REASSIGNING form duplicate title.","",14154,"The figures, which must actuate her, remain
As yet quite uncollected in the brain;
Exterior objects have not furnish' yet
Th' ideal stores which Age is sure to get.","Reading Maclean's John Locke and English Literature (New York, Russell & Russell, 1962), 35.",2005-03-27 00:00:00 UTC,7177,"""The figures, which must actuate her, remain / As yet quite uncollected in the brain; / Exterior objects have not furnish' yet / Th' ideal stores which Age is sure to get.""",""
2013-11-27 19:20:06 UTC,,"","","",19530,"But the wild passions, once broke loose, to check
Surpass'd his pow'r, or the slack'd reins recall.
The pilot, when th' outrageous tempest roars,
If once the helm he quite, in vain exhorts
His mariners the swelling sails to furl:
Vain all their art: precipitately drives
The wand'ring bark, as winds and waves command.
Or when a lofty mound with massy pride
Hath long withstood the lashing surge's rage;
At the first breach the torrent bursts it's way
With rapid fury impetuous, uncontroll'd.
Thus your deluded Chief, Heav'ns sacred awe
Subvertng, pav'd the fatal way to vice.
And where's the boasted liberty of man?
Chang'd are his lords indeed; and tyrant Lust
Usurps the just supremacy of Heav'n.
(p. 7)",Reading in ECCO,2012-01-24 21:55:53 UTC,7177,"""But the wild passions, once broke loose, to check / Surpass'd his pow'r, or the slack'd reins recall.""",Beasts
2012-01-24 21:57:37 UTC,,"","","",19531,"But the wild passions, once broke loose, to check
Surpass'd his pow'r, or the slack'd reins recall.
The pilot, when th' outrageous tempest roars,
If once the helm he quite, in vain exhorts
His mariners the swelling sails to furl:
Vain all their art: precipitately drives
The wand'ring bark, as winds and waves command.
Or when a lofty mound with massy pride
Hath long withstood the lashing surge's rage;
At the first breach the torrent bursts it's way
With rapid fury impetuous, uncontroll'd.
Thus your deluded Chief, Heav'ns sacred awe
Subvertng, pav'd the fatal way to vice.
And where's the boasted liberty of man?
Chang'd are his lords indeed; and tyrant Lust
Usurps the just supremacy of Heav'n.
(p. 7)",Reading in ECCO,2012-01-24 21:57:37 UTC,7177,"""And where's the boasted liberty of man? / Chang'd are his lords indeed; and tyrant Lust / Usurps the just supremacy of Heav'n.""",""
2013-07-16 19:08:49 UTC,,"","","",21796,"1. The excellency of reason does not depend on that great unmeaning word (immateriality;) but on its force, extent, or acuteness. Wherefore a soul of clay, capable of discerning at one glance, the relations, and consequences of an infinite number of ideas, that are difficult to apprehend, would be evidently preferable to a heavy and stupid soul, formed of the most precious elements. [...]
(p. 3)",Reading,2013-07-16 19:08:49 UTC,7547,"Wherefore a soul of clay, capable of discerning at one glance, the relations, and consequences of an infinite number of ideas, that are difficult to apprehend, would be evidently preferable to a heavy and stupid soul, formed of the most precious elements.""",""
2013-07-16 19:09:52 UTC,,"","","",21797,"Experiments and observations alone ought to guide us here. These we find in abundance, in the writings of such physicians as were philosophers, and not in those philosophers, who were unacquainted with physic. The former have explored and unravelled the labyrinth of Man. They alone have discovered to us those hidden springs concealed under a cover, which hides from us so many wonders. They alone in a philosophical consideration of the soul, have a thousand times surprized it in it's misery and grandeur; without despising it in one of these conditions, or idolizing it in the other. [...]
(p. 5)
",Reading,2013-07-16 19:09:52 UTC,7547,"""The former have explored and unravelled the labyrinth of Man. They alone have discovered to us those hidden springs concealed under a cover, which hides from us so many wonders.""",""
2013-07-16 19:10:41 UTC,,"","","",21798,"Man is a machine so compound, that it is impossible to form at first a clear idea thereof, and consequently to define it. This is the reason, that all the enquiries the philosophers have made a priori, that is, by endeavouring to raise themselves on the wings of the understanding have proved ineffectual. Thus it is only a posteriori, or as it were by disentangling the soul from the organs of the body, that we can, I do not say, discover with evidence the nature of man, but obtain the greatest degree of probability the subject will admit of.
(p. 6)",Reading,2013-07-16 19:10:41 UTC,7547,"""Man is a machine so compound, that it is impossible to form at first a clear idea thereof, and consequently to define it. This is the reason, that all the enquiries the philosophers have made a priori, that is, by endeavouring to raise themselves on the wings of the understanding have proved ineffectual.""",Animals
2013-07-16 19:11:33 UTC,,"","","",21799,"Man is a machine so compound, that it is impossible to form at first a clear idea thereof, and consequently to define it. This is the reason, that all the enquiries the philosophers have made a priori, that is, by endeavouring to raise themselves on the wings of the understanding have proved ineffectual. Thus it is only a posteriori, or as it were by disentangling the soul from the organs of the body, that we can, I do not say, discover with evidence the nature of man, but obtain the greatest degree of probability the subject will admit of.
(p. 6)
",Reading,2013-07-16 19:11:33 UTC,7547,"""Thus it is only a posteriori, or as it were by disentangling the soul from the organs of the body, that we can, I do not say, discover with evidence the nature of man, but obtain the greatest degree of probability the subject will admit of.""",""
2013-07-16 19:12:35 UTC,,"","","",21800,"The body and soul seem to fall asleep together. In proportion as the motion of the blood grows calm, a soft soothing sense of peace and tranquility spreads itself over the whole machine; the soul finds itself sweetly weighed down with slumber, and sinks with the fibres of the brain: it becomes thus paralytic as it were, by degrees, together with all the muscles of the body. The latter are no longer able to support the head; the head itself can no longer bear the weight of thought; the soul is during sleep, as it it had no existence.
(p. 9)
",Reading,2013-07-16 19:12:35 UTC,7547,"""In proportion as the motion of the blood grows calm, a soft soothing sense of peace and tranquility spreads itself over the whole machine; the soul finds itself sweetly weighed down with slumber, and sinks with the fibres of the brain: it becomes thus paralytic as it were, by degrees, together with all the muscles of the body.""",""