id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text 24379,"Note: this passage NOT in second edition. Weird. Found in EEBO, first edition.","Reading Boswell's Life of Johnson (II, p. 189). Text found in EEBO, first edition (not reproduced in second edition).",Mirror,2014-07-31 19:18:44 UTC,,8015,"","",2014-07-31 19:18:44 UTC,"""In this Glass [her journal] she every Day dress'd her Mind, to this faithful Monitor she repair'd for Advice and Direction, compar'd the past with the present, judg'd of what would be by what had been, observ'd nicely the several successive Degrees of Holiness She got, and of humane Infirmity she shook off; and trac'd every single Step she took onward in her Way towards Heaven.""","To secure her Proficiency in Virtue, She kept an exact Journal of her Life, in which was contain'd the History of all her Spiritual Affairs, and of the several Turns that happen'd in her Soul: A true naked History! And yet (which seldom happens in True ones) such an one, where the Person written of is not charg'd with many Blemishes and Failings. Alas for us, that the Thread of it was no longer continu'd!

In this Glass she every Day dress'd her Mind, to this faithful Monitor she repair'd for Advice and Direction, compar'd the past with the present, judg'd of what would be by what had been, observ'd nicely the several successive Degrees of Holiness She got, and of humane Infirmity she shook off; and trac'd every single Step she took onward in her Way towards Heaven.
(pp. 14-15)"