id,dictionary,theme,reviewed_on,metaphor,created_at,provenance,comments,work_id,text,context,updated_at
10268,"","",2011-08-31,"""He will write his Laws in their hearts, and make them to walk in them.""",2005-07-20 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching ""mind"" in Ad Fontes's Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts","•In the margin: Eph. 2:10, 2 Cor. 5:17., Phil. 2:13., Ps. 110:3., Jerem. 31:33, 34, Ezek. 36:26, 27, Rom. 9:21. ",3948,"The Grace of God is set forth in Scripture by such Figures and Expressions as do plainly intimate its efficacy; and that it does not depend upon us to use it, or not to use it at pleasure. It is said to be a Creation, we are created unto good works, and we become new Creatures: It is called a Regeneration, or a New Birth; it is called a Quickning and a Resurrection; as our former state is compared to a feebleness, a blindness, and a death. God is said to work in us both to will and to do: His people shall be willing in the day of his power: He will write his Laws in their hearts, and make them to walk in them.Mankind is compared to a Mass of Clay in the hand of the Potter, who of the same lump makes at his pleasure Vessels of honour or of dishonour. These passages, this last in particular, do insinuate an Absolute and a Conquering Power in Grace; and that the love of God constrains us, as S. Paul speaks expresly.
(p. 186)","",2011-08-31 13:35:22 UTC
10350,Writing,Blank Slate; Lockean philosophy,,"""For I will here suppose the Soul, or Mind of Man, to be at first, rasa Tabula, like fair paper, that hath no connate Character or Idea's imprinted upon it (as that Learned Theorist Mr. Lock hath, I suppose, fully proved) and that it is not sensible of any thing at its coming into the World, but its own Existence and Action""",2006-10-08 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO","•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Paper
•Marginal citation to Essay Book I, Chap. 2
•Close to Locke in language of supposition: ""Let us suppose.""",3985,"Nor let it seem strange, that I suppose the Nature of divers Things, about which we are daily conversant, ought first to be looked into, and considered: For I will here suppose the Soul, or Mind of Man, to be at first, rasa Tabula, like fair paper, that hath no connate Character or Idea's imprinted upon it (as that Learned Theorist Mr. Lock hath, I suppose, fully proved) and that it is not sensible of any thing at its coming into the World, but its own Existence and Action; but receives all its Ideas afterwards, from such Objects as it hath received in by the Senses: So that our Understandings being naturally destitute of all Notions of Idea's, we cannot comprehend how they can operate, unless they be first excited by outward Objects. And indeed how can we understand what may be helpful and agreeable, or else hurtful and destructive to Men's Minds and Bodies, unless we first consider (as far as we are able) all the Causes both near and remote, which have made, constituted, and do still preserve Mankind, or else may tend to its [end page 4] destruction either for the time present, or to come? Nor indeed can it be understood what is the fittest and best Thing, or Action, any Person can perform in a Case proposed, unless first all those Effects, which may proceed from it, in all its various Circumstances, be duly considered and compared together. [...]
(4, p. 4-5",Chapt 1,2009-09-14 19:34:55 UTC
11241,Writing,Blank Slate,,"""But Adam's Soul being put in his Body, his Brain was a Tabula rasa, as White Paper, had no Impressions in it, but such as either God put in it, or such as came to him by his Senses.""",2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",•Marginal citation of Gen 1:27-8
•INTEREST. USE in entry. Another case of an innatist blank slate. The following mixture of natural philosophy and biblical exegesis is worth rereading.,4308,"The surest way to find out what this Image was at first, is to consider, what the New Testament says of it, when we come to be restored to it. We must put on the new Man, after the image of him that created him; or as elsewhere, the new man in righteousness and true holiness. This then was the Image of God, in which Man was at first made. Nor ought the Image of God to be considered only as an Expression that imports only our representing him here on Earth, and having Dominion over the Creatures: For in Genesis the Creation of Man in the image of God, is expressed as a thing different from his Dominion over the Creatures, which seems to be given to him as a consequent of it. The image of God seems to be this, That the Soul of man was a Being of another Sort and Order than all those material Beings till then made, which were neither capable of Thought nor Liberty, in which respect the Soul was made after the Image of God. But Adam's Soul being put in his Body, his Brain was a Tabula rasa, as White Paper, had no Impressions in it, but such as either God put in it, or such as came to him by his Senses. A Man born deaf and blind, newly come to hear and see, is not a more Ignorant and Amazed-like Creature than Adam must have been, if God had not conveyed some great Impressions into him; [end page 110] such as first the acknowledging and obeying him as his Maker, and then the managing his Body so as to make it an instrument, by which he could make use of and observe Creation. There is no reason to think that his Body was at first inclined to Appetite, and that his Mind was apt to serve his Body, but that both were restrained by supernatural Assistances: It is much more natural and more agreeable to the Words of the Wiseman, to think that God made man upright, that his Body craved modestly, and that his Mind was both Judge and Master of those Cravings; and if a natural Hypothesis may be offered, but only as an Hypothesis, it may be supposed, That a Man's Blood was naturally low and cool, but that it was capable of a vast Inflammation and Elevation, by which a Man's Powers might be exalted to much higher Degrees of Knowledge and Capacity: The Animal Spirits receiving their Quality from that of the Blood, a new and a strong Fermentation in the Blood might raise them, and by consequence exalt a man to a much greater sublimity of Thought: But with that it might dispose him to be easily inflamed by Appetites and Passions, it might put him under the power of his Body, and make his Body much more apt to be fired at outward objects, which might sink all Spiritual and pure Ideas in him, and raise gross ones with much Fury and Rapidity. Hereby his whole Frame might be corrupted, and that might go so deep in him, that all those who descended from him, might be defiled by it, as we see Madness and some Chronical Diseases pass from Parents to Children.
(pp. 110-1)k",Commentary on Article 9,2013-06-26 16:29:49 UTC
11782,Writing,Blank Slate,,"""It is a kind of annihilation to have our minds made a tabula rasa, and to date our existence from a new period.""",2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO","",4482,"Every man naturally desires not only to be removed hereafter into a happier state, but to carry his consciousness along with him, and to know his change from worse to better. It is a melancholly consideration for a man to think that when he dies all his thoughts perish, and he shall know and remember himself no more. It is a kind of annihilation to have our minds made a tabula rasa, and to date our existence from a new period. I cannot help pitying the souls in Virgil who are led to the Lethe, to drink, and forget themselves for ever.
(vol. i, p. 24)","",2009-09-14 19:36:15 UTC
12897,"","",,"Dirt or Rags cannot ""hide this Something [in true Beauty] from those Souls which are not of the vulgar Stamp""",2005-03-10 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Prose)","",4812,"Congreve well says, There is in true Beauty something which vulgar Souls cannot admire; so can no Dirt or Rags hide this Something from those Souls which are not of the vulgar Stamp.","Vol. 2, Book 4, Chap. 6",2009-09-14 19:37:31 UTC
12899,"","",,"""[L]et the Remembrance of what past at Upton blot me for ever from your Mind""",2005-03-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching ""blot"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Prose","",4812,"After a short Pause, Jones, with faultering Accents, said,--'I see, Madam, you are surprized.' --'Surprized!' answered she; 'Oh Heavens! Indeed, I am surprized. I almost doubt whether you are the Person you seem.' 'Indeed,' cries he, 'my Sophia, pardon me, Madam, for this once calling you so, I am that very wretched Jones, whom Fortune, after so many Disappointments, hath, at last, kindly conducted to you. Oh! mySophia, did you know the thousand Torments I have suffered in this long, fruitless Pursuit'--'Pursuit of whom?' said Sophia, a little recollecting herself, and assuming a reserved Air. --'Can you be so cruel to ask that Question?' cries Jones. 'Need I say of you?' 'Of me?' answered Sophia: 'Hath Mr. Jones then any such important Business with me?' 'To some, Madam,' cries Jones, 'this might seem an important Business,' (giving her the Pocket-Book). 'I hope, Madam, you will find it of the same Value, as when it was lost.' Sophia took the Pocket-Book, and was going to speak, when he interrupted her, thus; --'Let us not, I beseech you, lose one of these precious Moments which Fortune hath so kindly sent us. --O my Sophia, I have Business of a much superior Kind. --Thus, on my Knees, let me ask your Pardon.' --'My Pardon?' cries she;--'Sure, Sir, after what is past you cannot expect, after what I have heard--'I scarce know what I say,' answered Jones. 'By Heavens! I scarce wish you should pardon me. O my Sophia, henceforth never cast away a Thought on such a Wretch as I am. If any Remembrance of me should ever intrude to give a Moment's Uneasiness to that tender Bosom, think of my Unworthiness; and let the Remembrance of what past at Upton blot me for ever from your Mind'--
(pp. 89-91)","Vol. 5, Book 13, Chap. 11",2009-09-14 19:37:31 UTC
13059,Coinage and Rooms and Writing,"",2003-10-23,"""'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'""",2009-09-14 19:37:43 UTC,HDIS (Prose),"REVISIT. INTEREST.
•I should doublecheck the prevailing sense of treasury in the c18. What is a treasury here? Building, government, or book? (This is the kind of example a poststructuralist delights in...)
•The OED gives as a first definition: ""1. A room or building in which precious or valuable objects are preserved, esp. a place or receptacle for money or valuables (now Hist. ); transf. the funds or revenue of a state or of a public or private corporation."" and as a second definition: ""2. fig. A repository of 'treasures'; a thesaurus; a 'treasure-house', 'storehouse'.""
•So the entry could be put in 'Architecture' or 'Writing'? Notice this OED citation of Chaucer: ""c1384 CHAUCER H. Fame II .16 In the tresorye hyt shette Of my brayn""",4875,"'Indeed, my dear Sir,' cries Amelia, you are the wisest as well as best Man in the World--'
'Not a Word of my Wisdom,' cries the Doctor. 'I have not a Grain---I am not the least versed in the Chrematistic Art, as an old Friend of mine calls it. I know not how to get a single Shilling, nor how to keep it in my Pocket when I have it.'
'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'
'You are a little Flatterer,' cries the Doctor; 'but I dislike you not for it. And to shew you I don't, I will return your Flattery; and tell you, you have acted with great Prudence in concealing this Affair from your Husband; but you have drawn me into a Scrape: For I have promised to dine with this Fellow again To-morrow; and you have made it impossible for me to keep my Word.' (III.ix.5)","",2013-06-11 18:25:21 UTC
13100,"","",2003-10-23,"""I need not sign this Letter, otherwise than with that Impression of my Heart which I hope it bears""",2005-03-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching ""letter"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Prose)","",4875,"
'Madam,
The quick Dispatch which I have given to your first Commands will, I hope, assure you of the Diligence with which I shall always obey every Command that you are pleased to honour me with. I have indeed in this trifling Affair, acted as if my Life itself had been at Stake, nay, I know not but it may be so: for this insignificant Matter you was pleased to tell me would oblige the charming Person in whose Power is not only my Happiness; but as I am well persuaded my Life too. Let me reap therefore some little Advantage in your Eyes as you have in mine from this trifling Occasion: for if any Thing could add to the Charms of which you are Mistress; it would be perhaps that amiable Zeal with which you maintain the Cause of your Friend. I hope indeed she will be my Friend and Advocate with the most lovely of her Sex, as I think she hath Reason, and as you was pleased to insinuate she had been: Let me beseech you, Madam, let not that dear Heart whose Tenderness is so inclin'd to compassionate the Miseries of others, be harden'd only against the Sufferings which itself occasions. Let not that Man alone have Reason to think you cruel, who of all others would do the most to procure your Kindness. How often have I lived over in my Reflections, in my Dreams those two short Minutes we were together? but alas! how faint are these Mimickries of the Imagination! What would I not give to purchase the Reality of such another Blessing! This, Madam, is in your Power to bestow on the Man who hath no Wish, no Will, no Fortune, no Heart, no Life, but what are at your Disposal. Grant me only the Favour to be at Lady ---'s Assembly. --You can have nothing to fear from indulging me with a Moment's Sight, a Moment's Conversation. I will ask no more. I know your Delicacy, and had rather die than offend it. Could I have seen you sometimes, I believe the Fear of offending you would have kept my Love for ever buried in my own Bosom; but to be totally excluded even from the Sight of what my Soul doats on is what I cannot bear. It is that alone which hath extorted the fatal Secret from me. Let that obtain your Forgiveness for me. I need not sign this Letter, otherwise than with that Impression of my Heart which I hope it bears; and to conclude it in any Form, no Language hath Words of Devotion strong enough to tell you with what Truth, what Anguish, what Zeal, what Adoration I love you.'
(pp. 84-6)","Vol. 4, Book 10, Chap. 8",2009-09-14 19:37:46 UTC