work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5088,"",Searching in HDIS (Prose),2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,"""At first sight this may seem to be a true state of the case; and I make no doubt but the knowledge of right and wrong is so truly impressed upon the mind of man,--that did no such thing ever happen, as that the conscience of a man, by long habits of sin, might (as the scripture assures it may) insensibly become hard;--and, like some tender parts of his body, by much stress and continual hard usage, lose, by degrees, that nice sense and perception with which God and nature endow'd it: --Did this never happen; --or was it certain that self-love could never hang the least bias upon the judgment;--or that the little interests below, could rise up and perplex the faculties of our upper regions, and encompass them about with clouds and thick darkness: --Could no such thing as favour and affection enter this sacred Court: --Did Wit disdain to take a bribe in it;--or was asham'd to shew its face as an advocate for an unwarrantable enjoyment: --Or, lastly, were we assured, that Interest stood always unconcern'd whilst the cause was hearing,--and that passion never got into the judgment-seat, and pronounc'd sentence in the stead of reason, which is supposed always to preside and determine upon the case: --Was this truly so, as the objection must suppose;--no doubt then, the religious and moral state of a man would be exactly what he himself esteem'd it;-- and the guilt or innocence of every man's life could be known, in general, by no better measure, than the degrees of his own approbation and censure.
(pp. 111-3, Norton 90-1)",,13720,•I've included twice: Rebellion and Clouds,"The ""little interests below"" may ""rise up and perplex the faculties of our upper regions, and encompass them about with clouds and thick darkness.""","",2011-09-23 19:19:07 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter 17. The Sermon read by Trim"
5579,"",C-H Lion,2013-06-16 20:10:00 UTC,"The displeasure of my father at this declaration was dreadful; his charges, always as improbable as injurious, now became too horrible for my ears; he disbelieved you had taken up the money for Harrel, he discredited that you visited the Belfields for Henrietta: passion not merely banished his justice, but clouded his reason, and I soon left the room, that at least I might not hear the aspersions he forbid me to answer.
(V, p. 179)",,20796,"","""Passion not merely banished his justice, but clouded his reason, and I soon left the room, that at least I might not hear the aspersions he forbid me to answer.""","",2013-06-16 20:10:00 UTC,""