work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4712,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2006-12-18 00:00:00 UTC,"Search each his own Breast first, read that with Care,
And mark if no one Crime be written There!
For Thou who, faulty, wrong'st another's Fame,
Howe'er so great and dignify'd thy Name,
The Muse shall drag thee forth to publick Shame;
Pluck the fair Feathers from thy Swan-skin Heart,
And shew thee black and guileful as thou art.",,12429,"","""Search each his own Breast first, read that with Care, / And mark if no one Crime be written There!""","",2009-09-14 19:36:58 UTC,""
5214,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Prose)",2005-03-09 00:00:00 UTC,"I catched at the Letter and, tearing it open, read over and over, a thousand Times, what will for ever be engraven in my Memory and on my Heart.",,14049,"","""I catched at the Letter and, tearing it open, read over and over, a thousand Times, what will for ever be engraven in my Memory and on my Heart.""","",2009-09-14 19:39:49 UTC,Volume V
5214,Physiognomy; Inner and Outer,"Searching ""stamp"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Prose)",2005-03-10 00:00:00 UTC,"When she drew near the Goal of her blessed Course upon Earth, O my almightySamson ! she faintly cried, thou shakest the two Pillars of my frail and sinful Fabric; finish then thy Conquest in me; down, down with the whole Building appointed to ruin! let no one, O Lord, of mine Enemies or of thine Enemies escape thy victorious Arm! but slay all those by my Death, with whom I have been vainly combating during my Life-time! So saying, her Pains in an Instant forsook her. The Form of her Countenance was suddenly changed from the Expression of Agony into that of Ecstasy. She raised her Hands on high, and exerting herself to follow them, she cried, I come, I come! then sighed and dropped over. --The Muscles of her Face still retained the Stamp of the last Sentiment of her Soul, and while the Body hastened to be mingled with Earth, it seemed to partake of that Heaven to which its Spirit had been exalted.",,14050,"•Here, as in Cleland, the stamp is from inward to outward... INTEREST. The soul stamps an expression on the face. Discuss","""The Muscles of her Face still retained the Stamp of the last Sentiment of her Soul""","",2009-09-14 19:39:49 UTC,"Volume 3, Chap. 14"
5214,"","Searching ""bosom"" and ""law"" in HDIS (Prose)",2005-04-25 00:00:00 UTC,"If these were not, my Harry, the natural, inheritable, and indefeasible Rights of all Men, there would be no Wrong, no Injustice, in depriving All you should meet, of their Liberty, their Lives, and Properties at Pleasure. For, all Laws that were ever framed for the good Government of Men (even with the divine Decalogue) are no other than faint Transcripts of that eternal Law of Benevolence, which was written and again retraced in the Bosom of the first Man, and which all his Posterity ought to observe, without further Obligation.
The capital Apostle, Saint Paul, bears Testimony, also, to the Impression of this Law of Rights on the Consciences and Hearts of all Men, where he says in the second Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, ""Not the Hearers of the Law are just before God, but the Doers of the Law shall be justified. For, when the Gentiles, which have not the Law, do by Nature the Things contained in the Law, These, having not the Law, are a Law unto themselves. Which shew the work of the Law written in their Hearts, Consciences also bearing Witness, and their Thoughts, the mean while, accusing or else excusing One another.""
(pp. 96-7)",,14066,"","""[A]ll Laws that were ever framed for the good Government of Men (even with the divine Decalogue) are no other than faint Transcripts of that eternal Law of Benevolence, which was written and again retraced in the Bosom of the first Man""",Court,2009-09-14 19:39:54 UTC,"Volume 4, Chap. 1"
5214,Romans 2:14-15,"Searching ""Heart"" and ""law"" in HDIS (Prose)",2005-04-25 00:00:00 UTC,"If these were not, my Harry, the natural, inheritable, and indefeasible Rights of all Men, there would be no Wrong, no Injustice, in depriving All you should meet, of their Liberty, their Lives, and Properties at Pleasure. For, all Laws that were ever framed for the good Government of Men (even with the divine Decalogue) are no other than faint Transcripts of that eternal Law of Benevolence, which was written and again retraced in the Bosom of the first Man, and which all his Posterity ought to observe, without further Obligation.
The capital Apostle, Saint Paul, bears Testimony, also, to the Impression of this Law of Rights on the Consciences and Hearts of all Men, where he says in the second Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, ""Not the Hearers of the Law are just before God, but the Doers of the Law shall be justified. For, when the Gentiles, which have not the Law, do by Nature the Things contained in the Law, These, having not the Law, are a Law unto themselves. Which shew the work of the Law written in their Hearts, Consciences also bearing Witness, and their Thoughts, the mean while, accusing or else excusing One another.""
(pp. 96-7)",,14067,Cross-reference: Romans. ,"""Saint Paul, bears Testimony, also, to the Impression of this Law of Rights on the Consciences and Hearts of all Men"" in Romans, chapter 2: ""Not the Hearers of the Law are just before God, but the Doers of the Law shall be justified. For, when the Gentiles, which have not the Law, do by Nature the Things contained in the Law, These, having not the Law, are a Law unto themselves. Which shew the work of the Law written in their Hearts""",Court,2013-11-01 21:26:25 UTC,"Volume 4, Chap. 1"
5365,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"The infant mind at coming to the world, is a meer rasa tabula, destitute of all ideas and materials of reflection. It is a charte blanche, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a rasa tabula or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and frost in every degree pleasing and [sufferable?]; that compassion and gratitude are base; treachery, falshood, and envy noble; and that contempt is indifferent to us: Yet no human [end page 57] art or industry are able to make those impression on the mind: in respect to them, the mind discovers not a passive capacity, but it resists them with the force of fate: the signification of the words may indeed be altered; but when we take our attention off from the words, and place it on the ideas, I mean, that no human power is able to impress the ideas I speak of, on the mind of man, in the order and relation I write them. The infant mind then is justly compared to a sheet of clean paper, in being pure of ideas, and susceptible of a vast variety; but it cannot be compared to a sheet of clean paper in this other respect, that prior to the impression, they are both equally indifferent to the inscription they are to bear. For the human mind hath several predetermined tastes and sentiments, which arise from a source that lies beyond experience; custom, or choice; that with absolute, [end page 58] authority decides the good and bad of the ideas we receive.
(pp. 56-9) ",,14374,"","""The infant mind at coming to the world, is a meer rasa tabula, destitute of all ideas and materials of reflection.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:40:44 UTC,Section III. Of Instinct
5365,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"The infant mind at coming to the world, is a meer rasa tabula, destitute of all ideas and materials of reflection.It is a charte blanche, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a rasa tabula or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and frost in every degree pleasing and [sufferable?]; that compassion and gratitude are base; treachery, falshood, and envy noble; and that contempt is indifferent to us: Yet no human [end page 57] art or industry are able to make those impression on the mind: in respect to them, the mind discovers not a passive capacity, but it resists them with the force of fate: the signification of the words may indeed be altered; but when we take our attention off from the words, and place it on the ideas, I mean, that no human power is able to impress the ideas I speak of, on the mind of man, in the order and relation I write them. The infant mind then is justly compared to a sheet of clean paper, in being pure of ideas, and susceptible of a vast variety; but it cannot be compared to a sheet of clean paper in this other respect, that prior to the impression, they are both equally indifferent to the inscription they are to bear. For the human mind hath several predetermined tastes and sentiments, which arise from a source that lies beyond experience; custom, or choice; that with absolute, [end page 58] authority decides the good and bad of the ideas we receive.
(pp. 56-9) ",,14375,"•This passage is quoted and critiqued in the British Magazine and General Review (1772). p. 270; ""We should be glad to know what is all this more than saying, that the mind is so constituted, that whatever it determines at first to be sweet, it cannot afterwards taught to determine bitter"" (270).
•INTEREST. REVISIT. This passage is taken up by other writers. Cross-reference: Napleton's Advice to a Student in the University (1795).","""It is a charte blanche, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a rasa tabula or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and frost in every degree pleasing and [sufferable?]; that compassion and gratitude are base; treachery, falshood, and envy noble; and that contempt is indifferent to us: Yet no human art or industry are able to make those impression on the mind.""",Writing,2010-07-01 21:09:25 UTC,Section III. Of Instinct
5849,Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Therefore I take the mind or soul of men to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all impressions, as a rasa tabula, or white paper, &c.
(p. 14)",,15579,"•A footnote to this passage cites, Watts Essay, p. 106.","""Therefore I take the mind or soul of men to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all impressions, as a rasa tabula, or white paper, &c.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:44:01 UTC,Chap IV. §19
5855,Blank Slate,"Searching ""mind"" and ""blank"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""soul"" and ""blank""",2005-03-02 00:00:00 UTC,"Here lies the body of John H---,
Entomb'd within this castle-wall;
Impaired by time not overthrown,
Fairly subdued by Sloth alone.
Like one of Virgil's lazy cattle,
Unfit alike for peace or battle.
As snug and totally at rest
As dormice in their dormant nest.
Like souls unborn and unequipp'd,
A blank, of many a passion stripp'd.
That minds as much as these same weak ones
The threats of bishops, priests, and deacons.
And who the promises believes
Of priests and deacons and lawn sleeves,
As much as they themselves believe
All that they teach from morn to eve.
Which they are not to blame for teaching,
But those that pay them for their preaching.
When young, by his parish priest's assistance,
He saw great marvels at a distance;
He saw both heaven and hell below,
And also saw in heaven or hell,
But so far off they made no show,
All people that on earth do dwell,
As children lifted by the chin
See London town and all within.",,15587,"","""Like souls unborn and unequipp'd, / A blank, of many a passion stripp'd.""","",2009-09-14 19:44:03 UTC,""
7767,"",Searching in Google Books,2013-11-12 23:41:26 UTC,"It is agreed on all Hands that, amongst private Persons, nothing ought to be held more inviolable than the Communication of our Thoughts by a mutual Intercourse of Letters. The tender Concerns and reciprocal Endearments of Lovers; the unguarded Intelligence of intimate Friends; the Mysteries of Tradesmen and Mechanicks; the Negotiations, Contracts and Engagements of mercantile Persons; the Views, Expectations and Pursuits of Some; the Misfortunes and Necessities of Others; and the Secrets of Families in general, of whatsoever Kind, which are conveyed in an epistolary Manner, are Things of so sacred a Nature, that, in all civiliz'd Countries, it has been esteem'd highly scandalous to satisfy our Curiosity at another's Expence A Man of true Honour will as soon break open a Lock as a Letter, which does not belong to him; and pick his Neighbour's Pocket, as soon as discover his Nakedness in this Respect; for a Letter, being the Representative of the Person's Heart, who sends it, ought to pass, without Examination or Interruption, to the Hand, to which it is directed; since, otherwise, this Convenience will be of little Use to Mankind, who would no more communicate their Thoughts, in a free Manner, upon many Topicks, than they would talk upon them in publick Company. When a Man therefore has set down his Thoughts upon a Piece of Paper, and put his Signet upon it, he ought to be as safe as if he was privately talking to his Friend in his Closet; and I cannot help thinking that Man a worse Kind of Evesdropper, who breaks into this secret Cabinet, than one, who skulks under my Window, or listens thro' the Key-hole.
(p. 230)",,23189,INTEREST. More fodder for disagreements about letters as mirrors of mind/breast.,"""A Man of true Honour will as soon break open a Lock as a Letter, which does not belong to him; and pick his Neighbour's Pocket, as soon as discover his Nakedness in this Respect; for a Letter, being the Representative of the Person's Heart, who sends it, ought to pass, without Examination or Interruption, to the Hand, to which it is directed; since, otherwise, this Convenience will be of little Use to Mankind, who would no more communicate their Thoughts, in a free Manner, upon many Topicks, than they would talk upon them in publick Company.""",Writing,2013-11-12 23:41:26 UTC,""