id,dictionary,theme,reviewed_on,metaphor,created_at,provenance,comments,work_id,text,context,updated_at
9553,"","",2009-07-31,"""A Weak mind complains before it is overtaken with evil, and as Birds are affrighted with the noise of the Sling, so the infirm soul anticipates its troubles by its own fearful apprehensions, and falls under them before they are yet arrived.""",2004-03-24 00:00:00 UTC,"searching ""soliloquy"" in EEBO","",3688,"A Weak mind complains before it is overtaken with evil, and as Birds are affrighted with the noise of the Sling, so the infirm soul anticipates its troubles by its own fearful apprehensions, and falls under them before they are yet arrived. But what greater madness is there, than to be tormented with futurities, and not so much to reserve our selves to miseries against they come, as to invite and hasten them towards us of our own accord? The best remedy against this tottering state of the soul, is a good and clear Conscience; which if a man want, he will tremble in the midst of all his armed guards
(p. 437)","",2014-02-05 14:54:43 UTC