work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6709,"",Reading (OLL),2010-06-08 17:25:22 UTC,"2. God beholds all souls bare, and stripped of these corporeal vessels, bark, and filth. For, by his pure intellectual nature, he touches only what flowed out, and was derived from himself. If you would enure yourself to do the like, you would be free from much distraction and solicitude. For, can he, who looks not to the surrounding carcase, be much hurried about dress, houses, glory, or any such external furniture or accomodation?
(XII.2)",,17871,"","""God beholds all souls bare, and stripped of these corporeal vessels, bark, and filth.""","",2010-06-08 17:25:22 UTC,XII.2
4702,"",Searching and Reading in Google Books,2014-02-05 22:35:41 UTC,"[...]And indeed all Sorts of Arts and Sciences taught in a Method something of this kind are more happily committed to the Mind or Memory.
I Might give another plain Simile to confirm the Truth of this. What Horse or Carriage can take up and bear away all the various, rude and unweildy Loppings of a branchy Tree at once? But if they are divided yet further so as to be laid close, and bound up in a more uniform Manner into several Faggots, perhaps those Loppings may be all carried as one single Load or Burden.
(p. 264)",,23391,"","""I Might give another plain Simile to confirm the Truth of this [mnemonic method]. What Horse or Carriage can take up and bear away all the various, rude and unweildy Loppings of a branchy Tree at once? But if they are divided yet further so as to be laid close, and bound up in a more uniform Manner into several Faggots, perhaps those Loppings may be all carried as one single Load or Burden.""",Animals,2014-02-05 22:35:41 UTC,""
7959,"",Reading,2014-07-03 14:49:17 UTC,"HOW are we degenerated in Taste! Oh how chang'd! how fallen! That our Theatre shall be crowded with Nobility, Ladies and Gentry, to see Macbeth Burlesqu'd, or Be--g--k'd, which are synonimous, when they might read Mr. Theobald's Edition of him, without throwing away their Money, mispending their Time, ruining their Taste, or running the Hazard of catching a violent Cold, for a mere Non-entity: However, that I may not seem to be prejudic'd against Mr. G--k, as I really am not, for I admire him, for thus boldly daring to deceive and cheat three Parts of the Nation; I shall, having now crack'd the Shell of my Spleen against the Town, come to the Kernel of Reason, and present 'em this little sweet Nut of theirs, worm-eaten to the Sight, imbitter'd to their Taste, and abhorr'd to their Imaginations, as Shakespear terms it.
(pp. 2-3)",,24140,"","""I shall, having now crack'd the Shell of my Spleen against the Town, come to the Kernel of Reason, and present 'em this little sweet Nut of theirs, worm-eaten to the Sight, imbitter'd to their Taste, and abhorr'd to their Imaginations, as Shakespear terms it.""","",2014-07-03 14:49:37 UTC,""