work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4269,"",HDIS (Prose),2004-01-13 00:00:00 UTC,"I found it was not so easy to imprint right Notions in his Mind about the Devil, as it was about the Being of a God. Nature assisted all my Arguments to evidence to him even the Necessity of a great first Cause and over-ruling governing Power, a secret directing Providence, and of the Equity and Justice of paying Homage to him that made us, and the like. But there appear'd nothing of all this in the Notion of an evil Spirit, of his Original, his Being, his Nature, and above all, of his Inclination to do Evil, and to draw us in to do so too. And the poor Creature puzzl'd me once in such a Manner, by a Question meerly natural and innocent, that I scarce knew what to say to him. I had been talking a great deal to him of the Power of God, his Omnipotence, his dreadful Aversion to Sin, his being a consuming Fire to the Workers of Iniquity; how, as he had made us all, he could destroy us and all the World in a Moment; and he listen'd with great Seriousness to me all the while.
(p. 258)",,11135,"","""I found it was not so easy to imprint right Notions in his Mind about the Devil, as it was about the Being of a God.""",Writing,2011-06-07 05:45:58 UTC,""
4327,"",Searching in HDIS (Prose),2005-04-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Perhaps this Principle may not please all that read it; but as I have resolv'd to guide my Actions in things of such a Nature by the Rules of strict Vertue and Principles of Honour; so I must lay it down as a Rule of Honour, that a Man having once forfeited his Life to the Justice of his Prince, and to the Laws of his Country, and receiving it back as a Bounty from the Grace of his Soveraign; such a Man can never lift up his Hand again against that Prince, without a forfeiture of his Vertue, and an irreparable Breach of his Honour and Duty, and deserves no Pardon after it, either from God or Man; but all this is a Digression, I leave it as a Sketch of the Laws of Honour, printed by the Laws of Nature in the Breast of a Soldier, or a Man of Honour, and which I believe all impartial Persons who understand what Honour means, will Subscribe to.",,11315,•C-H uses the second edition of Colonel Jack. The novel was originally published in 1722.
•I've included twice: Printing and Law
,"The ""Laws of Honour"" may be ""printed by the Laws of Nature in the Breast of a Soldier, or a Man of Honour""","",2009-09-14 19:35:47 UTC,""
4514,Blank Slate; Negated Metaphor,"Reading Maclean's John Locke and English Literature, (1962), p. 23. Found again searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO; and again.",2005-03-27 00:00:00 UTC,"Therefore I take the Mind or Soul of Man not to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all Impressions, as a Rasa Tabula, or white Paper; and 'tis so framed by its Maker as not to be equally disposed to all sorts of Perceptions, nor to embrace all Propositions, with an Indifferency to judge them true or false; but that antecedently to all the Effects or Custom, Experience, Education, or any other contingent Causes, as the Mind is necessarily ordained and limited by its Creator to have such and such appointed Sensations or Ideas raised in it by certain external Motions of the Matter or Body to which it is united, and that while the Organs are good and sound it cannot have others, so 'tis also inclined and almost determined by such Principles as are wrought into it by the Creator, to believe some Propositions true, others false; and perhaps also some Actions good, others evil.
(pp. 105-6 in 1733 ed.)",2006-10-10,11853,•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Paper.,"""I take the Mind or Soul of Man not to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all Impressions, as a Rasa Tabula, or white Paper.""",Writing,2014-02-07 16:42:17 UTC,"Essay IV, sec iii"
4632,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-03-09 00:00:00 UTC,"Let me be wholly thine from this blest hour.
Fly from my soul all images of sense,
Leave me in silence to possess my Lord.
My life, my pleasures flow from him alone,
My strength, my great salvation, and my hope.
Thy name is all my trust--O name divine!
Be thou engraven on my inmost soul,
And let me own thee with my latest breath,
Confess thee in the face of ev'ry horror
That threat'ning death or envious hell can raise;
'Till all their strength subdu'd, my parting soul
Shall give a challenge to infernal rage,
And sing salvation to the Lamb for ever.",,12208,"","""O name divine! / Be thou engraven on my inmost soul""","",2009-09-14 19:36:43 UTC,""
4639,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"Transporting thought! how shall I speak my joy?
In what gay figures paint the ecstasy?
O may'st thou reign exalted and ador'd,
Ador'd on earth as in the highest heav'n!
With all the shouting myriads round thy throne
I join my grateful voice--Ye glitt'ring crowds,
Receive a mortal militant below
To your triumphant choir; with you I'll bless
My great Redeemer's name--transporting name!
'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest,
Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death,
Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence.
",,12215,"","""My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart""","",2009-09-14 19:36:43 UTC,""
4639,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"Transporting thought! how shall I speak my joy?
In what gay figures paint the ecstasy?
O may'st thou reign exalted and ador'd,
Ador'd on earth as in the highest heav'n!
With all the shouting myriads round thy throne
I join my grateful voice--Ye glitt'ring crowds,
Receive a mortal militant below
To your triumphant choir; with you I'll bless
My great Redeemer's name--transporting name!
'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest,
Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death,
Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence.
",2011-06-05,12216,"•I've included thrice: Impression, Stamp, Blot","""My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest, / Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death, / Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence.""",Impressions and Writing,2011-06-06 03:19:52 UTC,""
4711,Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy; Innate Ideas; Negated Metaphor,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-10 00:00:00 UTC,"5. These animal Sensations, Appetites, and Instincts therefore, as they are natural and necessary, must be innate, or co-eval and co-existent with the Animal or sensitive Creature itself, since one cannot conceive of an Animal, or any animal Life and Motion, without them. In this, therefore, I am forced to differ from that great Philosopher and Master of Reason, Mr. Locke, who denies and argues against all innate Ideas in general, and of every Kind: He supposes the Soul originally to be as a rasa Tabula, or Blank without any Impression, or distinguishing Character at all, which would be either nothing, or nothing that we can conceive or form any Notion or Idea of; but a Man or his Penetration, and Strength of Judgment, could not but see some Defect in his Reasoning, and that the Word Idea here was too general; and therefore, in prosecuting the Argument, he silently changes the Term Idea for Principle, and then proves very clearly, that we have no innate Principles, Perceptions of Truth, or Judgment of Reason, or no innate Ideas of Reflection: All this is acquired gradually by Observation and Experience, and by comparing one Thing with another, in the several Relations, Reasons, and Proportions of Things. In these Acquisitions and Improvements of Reason, Understand [end page 73] ing, and Judgment, Men are vastly different according to their different Capacities, Opportunities, Attention, and Degrees of Application; and nothing of all this is innate or born with us. In almost every Thing else, I must own Mr. Locke as my Master, and the first Guide and Director of my Understanding: But as this justly celebrated Philosopher, in this Case, might seem to have used the Word Idea in its most general Acceptation, so as to include all the original, simple Impressions of Sense, Appetite, and Instinct; I thought it necessary to remove such a Difficulty or Prejudice, lest the Authority of so great a Man, mistaken and misapplied, might lead others into Error, and darken and perplex, instead of clearing up the Truth to them. It would be equally contrary to Experience, and the present Constitution of Nature, either to suppose, that the Ideas of Sense, Appetite, and Instinct are not innate, or that the Perceptions of the Understanding, or the Judgments and Conclusions of Reason are so.",,12427,•Rich passage. Postcolonial issues as well: savage as blank slates
•Author reverses the argument of innatists who claim blank slate can't account for diversity.
•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Blank,"""In this, therefore, I am forced to differ from that great Philosopher and Master of Reason, Mr. Locke, who denies and argues against all innate Ideas in general, and of every Kind: He supposes the Soul originally to be as a rasa Tabula, or Blank without any Impression, or distinguishing Character at all, which would be either nothing, or nothing that we can conceive or form any Notion or Idea of.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:36:58 UTC,""
6102,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-02-14 00:00:00 UTC,"""O let my Name ingraven stand,
""Both on thy Heart and on thy Hand:
""Seal me upon thine Arm; and wear
'That pledge of Love for ever there.
(p. 76)",2011-07-19,16132,"•Another reference to the Song of Solomon: The source of most engraving metaphors?
•Often the heart and the arm are sealed. Here engraving and seal... See also Smart's ""ingraft""","""'O let my Name ingraven stand, / 'Both on thy Heart and on thy Hand.""",Writing,2011-07-20 03:05:37 UTC,""
6103,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-03-09 00:00:00 UTC,"Our heart, that flinty stubborn thing,
That terrors cannot move,
That fears no threatenings of his wrath,
Shall be dissolv'd by love.
Or he can take the flint away
That would not be refin'd,
And from the treasures of his grace
Bestow a softer mind.
There shall his sacred spirit dwell,
And deep engrave his law,
And every motion of our souls
To swift obedience draw.
",2011-07-20,16134,"","""There [in a softer mind] shall his sacred spirit dwell, / And deep engrave his law, / And every motion of our souls / To swift obedience draw.""",Court and Writing,2011-07-20 14:25:03 UTC,""
7846,"",ECCO-TCP,2014-03-12 21:00:06 UTC,"Child.
May I Father! Then I'll get it all without Book.
Fath.
It is not so much the getting the Words by Heart, Child, as getting the Word of Life wrought in your Heart.
Child.
How is that Father?
Fath.
Why, Child, to have the Spirit of God which wrote that Word, print it in your Mind, and give you Understanding both to read and obey it.
(p. 29)",,23678,"","""Why, Child, to have the Spirit of God which wrote that Word, print it in your Mind, and give you Understanding both to read and obey it.""",Impressions and Writing,2014-03-12 21:00:22 UTC,""