work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4292,"","Searching ""rule"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Prose Fiction)",2004-06-09 00:00:00 UTC,"But our Friend William gave us better Counsel; for he came to me, Friend, says he, I understand the Captain is for sailing back to the Rio Janiero, in Hopes to meet with the other Ship that was in Chase of thee yesterday; is it true, dost thou intend it? Why, yes, says I, William, pray why not? Nay, says he, thou mayst do so if thou wilt. Well, I know that too, William, said I; but the Captain is a Man will be ruled by Reason; what have you to say to it? Why, saysWilliam gravely, I only ask what is thy Business, and the Business of all the People thou hast with thee? Is it not to get Money? Yes, William, it is so, in our honest Way: And wouldst thou, says he, rather have Money without Fighting, or Fighting without Money? I mean, which wouldst thou have by Choice, suppose it to be left to thee? O William, says I, the first of the two, to be sure. Why then, says he, what great Gain hast thou made of the Prize thou hast taken now, tho' it has cost the Lives of thirteen of thy Men, besides some hurt? It is true, thou hast got the Ship and some Prisoners, but thou wouldst have had twice the Booty in a Merchant Ship, with not one Quarter of the Fighting; and how dost thou know either what Force, or what Number of Men may be in the other Ship, and what Loss thou mayst suffer, and what Gain it shall be to thee, if thou take her? I think indeed thou mayst much better let her alone.",2011-06-07,11220,"","""Well, I know that too, William, said I; but the Captain is a Man will be ruled by Reason; what have you to say to it?.""","",2011-06-07 11:40:59 UTC,""
4323,"",HDIS,2004-01-19 00:00:00 UTC,"I had now such a Load on my Mind that it kept me perpetually waking; to reveal it, I could not find would be to any Purpose, and yet to conceal it would be next to impossible; nay, I did not doubt but I should talk in my Sleep, and tell my Husband of it whether I would or no: If I discover'd it, the least thing I could expect was to lose my Husband, for he was too nice and too honest a Man to have continu'd my Husband after he had known I had been his Sister, so that I was perplex'd to the last Degree.
(p. 88)",,11272,"","""I had now such a Load on my Mind that it kept me perpetually waking.""","",2010-02-10 20:04:41 UTC,""
4323,"",HDIS,2004-01-19 00:00:00 UTC,"I endeavour'd to Reason my self out of it, but it was in vain, the Impression lay so strong on my Mind, that it was not to be resisted; at last it came as an Addition to my new Design of going into the Country, that it would be an excellent Blind to my old Governess, and would cover entirely all my other Affairs, for she did not know in the least, whether my new Lover liv'd in London, or, in Lancashire, and when I told her my Resolution, she was fully perswaded it was in Lancashire.
(p. 184)",,11273,"","""I endeavour'd to Reason my self out of it, but it was in vain, the Impression lay so strong on my Mind, that it was not to be resisted.""",Impression,2010-02-10 20:05:22 UTC,""
4323,"",HDIS,2004-01-19 00:00:00 UTC,"While I was under these Influences of Sorrow for him, came Notice to me that the next Sessions there would be a Bill preferr'd to the Grand Jury against me, and that I should be try'd for my Life: My Temper was touch'd before, the wretched Boldness of Spirit, which I had acquir'd, abated, and conscious Guilt began to flow in my Mind: In short, I began to think, and to think indeed is one real Advance from Hell to Heaven; all that harden'd State and Temper of Soul, which I said so much of before, is but a Deprivation of Thought; he that is restor'd to his Thinking, is restor'd to himself.
(p. 298)",,11274,"","""My Temper was touch'd before, the wretched Boldness of Spirit, which I had acquir'd, abated, and conscious Guilt began to flow in my Mind.""","",2010-02-10 20:06:19 UTC,""
4323,"",HDIS,2004-01-19 00:00:00 UTC,"The good Man having made a very Christian Exhortation to me, not to let the Joy of my Reprieve, put the Remembrance of my past Sorrow out of my Mind, and told me, that he must leave me, to go and enter the Reprieve in the Books, and show it to the Sheriffs, he stood up just before his going away, and in a very earnest Manner pray'd to God, for me, that my Repentance might be made Unfeign'd and Sincere; and that my coming back as it were into Life again, might not be a returning to the Follies of Life, which I had made such solemn Resolutions to forsake; I joyn'd heartily in that Petition, and must needs say, I had deeper Impressions upon my Mind all that Night, of the Mercy of God in sparing my Life; and a greater Detestation of my Sins, from a Sense of that goodness than I had in all my Sorrow before.
(pp. 307-8)",,11275,"","""I had deeper Impressions upon my Mind all that Night""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:35:44 UTC,""
4292,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Prose)",2011-06-07 11:43:09 UTC,"After I had made proper Impressions on his Mind, of the Terror of his Punishment, and found that he was sufficiently humbled by it, I went into the House, and caus'd him to be brought out, just as they do when they go to Correct the Negroes on such Occasions; when he was strip'd and ty'd up, he had two Lashes given him, that were indeed very cruel Ones, and I call'd to them to hold; hold said I, to the two Men that had just began to lay on upon the poor Fellow, hold said I, let me talk with him.",2011-06-07,18623,"","""After I had made proper Impressions on his Mind, of the Terror of his Punishment, and found that he was sufficiently humbled by it, I went into the House, and caus'd him to be brought out, just as they do when they go to Correct the Negroes on such Occasions; when he was strip'd and ty'd up, he had two Lashes given him, that were indeed very cruel Ones, and I call'd to them to hold; hold said I, to the two Men that had just began to lay on upon the poor Fellow, hold said I, let me talk with him.""",Impressions,2011-06-07 11:43:09 UTC,""
4292,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Prose)",2011-06-07 11:47:28 UTC,"Jack. My Method was just the same, and if you please to inquire of Mr.---, your other Servant, you will be satisfy'd that it was so; for we agreed upon the same Measures as I took with Mouchat; Namely, first to put them into the utmost Horror and Apprehensions of the Cruelest Punishment that they had ever heard of, and thereby enhaunce the Value of their Pardon, which was to come as from your self, but not without our great Intercession: Then I was to argue with them, and Work upon their Reason, to make the Mercy that was shew'd them sink deep into their Minds, and give lasting Impressions; explain the Meaning of Gratitude to them, and the Nature of an Obligation, and the like, as I had done with Mouchat.",,18624,"","""Then I was to argue with them, and Work upon their Reason, to make the Mercy that was shew'd them sink deep into their Minds, and give lasting Impressions; explain the Meaning of Gratitude to them, and the Nature of an Obligation, and the like, as I had done with Mouchat.""",Impressions,2011-06-07 11:47:28 UTC,""
4292,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Prose)",2011-06-07 11:50:51 UTC,"If it should be enquir'd, how I was capable of hearing all this, and having no Impressions made upon my Mind by it, especially, when it so many ways suited my own Case, and the Condition of the former part of my Life; I shall answer that presently by it self: However, I took no notice of it to him, for he had quite other Notions of me, than I had of my self; nor did I, as is usual in such Cases, enter into any Confidence with him on my own Story, only that I took sometimes the Occasion to let him know, that I did not come over to Virginia in the Capacity of a Criminal, or that I was not Transported; which considering how many of the Inhabitants there were so, who then liv'd in good Circumstances, was needful enough to be done.",2011-06-07,18625,"","""If it should be enquir'd, how I was capable of hearing all this, and having no Impressions made upon my Mind by it, especially, when it so many ways suited my own Case, and the Condition of the former part of my Life; I shall answer that presently by it self.""",Impressions,2011-06-07 11:50:51 UTC,""
6935,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Prose)",2011-06-07 12:07:14 UTC,"I had in Family only an antient Woman, that managed the House, a Maid-Servant, two Apprentices, and my self; and the Plague beginning to encrease about us, I had many sad Thoughts about what Course I should take, and how I should act; the many dismal Objects, which happened everywhere as I went about the Streets, had fill'd my Mind with a great deal of Horror, for fear of the Distemper it self, which was indeed, very horrible in it self, and in some more than in others, the swellings which were generally in the Neck, or Groin, when they grew hard, and would not break, grew so painful, that it was equal to the most exquisite Torture; and some not able to bear the Torment threw themselves out at Windows, or shot themselves, or otherwise made themselves away, and I saw several dismal Objects of that Kind: Others unable to contain themselves, vented their Pain by incessant Roarings, and such loud and lamentable Cries were to be heard as we walk'd along the Streets, that would Pierce the very Heart to think of, especially when it was to be considered, that the same dreadful Scourge might be expected every Moment to seize upon our selves.",,18627,"","""[T]he many dismal Objects, which happened everywhere as I went about the Streets, had fill'd my Mind with a great deal of Horror, for fear of the Distemper it self, which was indeed, very horrible in it self, and in some more than in others, the swellings which were generally in the Neck, or Groin, when they grew hard, and would not break, grew so painful, that it was equal to the most exquisite Torture; and some not able to bear the Torment threw themselves out at Windows, or shot themselves, or otherwise made themselves away, and I saw several dismal Objects of that Kind.""","",2011-06-07 12:07:14 UTC,""
6935,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Prose)",2011-06-07 12:09:02 UTC,"I would be far from lessening the Awe of the Judgments of God, and the Reverence to his Providence, which ought always to be on our Minds on such Occasions as these; doubtless the Visitation it self is a Stroke from Heaven upon a City, or Country, or Nation where it falls; a Messenger of his Vengeance, and a loud Call to that Nation, or Country, or City, to Humiliation and Repentance, according to that of the Prophet Jeremiah xviii. 7, 8. At what instant I shall speak concerning a Nation, and concerning a Kingdom to pluck up, and to pull down, and destroy it: If that Nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. Now to prompt due Impressions of the Awe of God on the Minds of Men on such Occasions, and not to lessen them it is that I have left those Minutes upon Record.",,18628,"","""I would be far from lessening the Awe of the Judgments of God, and the Reverence to his Providence, which ought always to be on our Minds on such Occasions as these.""",Impressions,2011-06-07 12:09:02 UTC,""