work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7099,"",Searching in ECCO,2011-09-20 19:44:30 UTC,"And when I have done it, you may reasonably ask me of what Importance can the History of my private Life be to the Publick? To this, indeed, I can only make you a ludicrous Answer, which is, That the Publick very well knows my Life has not been a private one; that I have been employ'd in their Service ever since many of their Grandfathers were young Men; And tho' I have voluntarily laid down my Post, they have a sort of Right to enquire into my Conduct (for which they have so well paid me) and to call for the Account of it during my Share of Administration in the State of the Theatre. This Work, therefore, which I hope they will not expect a Man of hasty Head shou'd confine to any regular Method: (For I shall make no scruple of leaving my History when I think a Digression may make it lighter for my Reader's Digestion.) This Work, I say, shall not only contain the various Impressions of my Mind, (as in Louis the Fourteenth his Cabinet you have seen the growing Medals of his Person from Infancy to Old Age,) but shall likewise include with them the Theatrical History of my Own Time, from my first Appearance on the Stage to my last Exit.
(p. 4)
",,19203,USE IN ENTRY,"""This Work, I say, shall not only contain the various Impressions of my Mind, (as in Louis the Fourteenth his Cabinet you have seen the growing Medals of his Person from Infancy to Old Age,) but shall likewise include with them the Theatrical History of my Own Time, from my first Appearance on the Stage to my last Exit.""",Coinage,2011-09-20 19:50:31 UTC,""
4702,"",Searching and Reading in Google Books,2014-02-05 21:59:45 UTC,"I Confess those whose reading is designed only to fit them for much Talk, and little Knowledge, may content themselves to run over their Authors in such a sudden and trifling Way ; they may devour Libraries in this Manner, yet be poor Reasoners at last, and have no solid Wisdom or true Learning. The Traveller who walks on fair and softly in a Course that points right, and examines every Turning before he ventures upon it, will come sooner and safer to his Journey's End, than he who runs through every Lane he meets, though he gallop full speed all the Day. The Man of much Reading and a large retentive Memory, but without Meditation, may become in the Sense of the World a knowing Man; and if he converses much with the Ancients, he may attain the Fame of Learning too: but he spends his Days afar off from Wisdom and true judgment, and possesses very little of the Substantial Riches of the Mind.
(p. 69)",,23363,"","""The Man of much Reading and a large retentive Memory, but without Meditation, may become in the Sense of the World a knowing Man; and if he converses much with the Ancients, he may attain the Fame of Learning too: but he spends his Days afar off from Wisdom and true judgment, and possesses very little of the Substantial Riches of the Mind.""",Coinage,2014-02-05 21:59:45 UTC,""
4702,"",Searching and Reading in Google Books,2014-02-05 22:08:51 UTC,"III. Use all Diligence to acquire and treasure up a large Store of Ideas and Notions: Take every Opportunity to add something to your Stock; and by frequent Recollection fix them in your memory: Nothing tends to confirm and enlarge the Memory like a frequent Review of its Possessions. Then the Brain being well furnished with various Traces, Signatures and Images, will have a rich Treasure always ready to be proposed or offered to the Soul, when it directs its Thoughts towards any particular Subject. This will gradually give the Mind a Faculty of surveying many objects at once; as a Room that is richly adorned and hung round with a great Variety of Pictures, strikes the Eye almost at once with all that Variety, especially if they have been well surveyed one by one at first: This makes it habitual and more easy to the Inhabitants to take in many of those painted Scenes with a single Glance or two.
(pp. 239-40)",,23371,"","""Then the Brain being well furnished with various Traces, Signatures and Images, will have a rich Treasure always ready to be proposed or offered to the Soul, when it directs its Thoughts towards any particular Subject.""",Coinage,2014-02-05 22:08:51 UTC,""
4702,"",Searching and Reading in Google Books,2014-02-05 22:16:55 UTC,"I Have read in some of Mr. Milton's Writings a very beautiful Simile, whereby he represents the Books of the Fathers, as they are called in the Christian Church. Whatsoever, saith he, old Time with his huge Drag-Net, has convey'd down to us along the Stream of Ages, whether it be Shells or Shell-Fish, Jewels or Pebbles, Sticks or Straws, Sea-Weeds or Mud, these are the Ancients, these are the Fathers. The Case is much the same with the memorial Possessions of the greatest Part of Mankind. A few useful Things perhaps, mixed and confounded with many Trifles and all manner of Rubbish fill up their Memories, and compose their intellectual Possessions. 'Tis a great Happiness therefore to distinguish things aright, and to lay up nothing in the Memory but what has some just Value in it, and is worthy to be number'd as a Part of our Treasure.
(p. 252)",,23377,"","""A few useful Things perhaps, mixed and confounded with many Trifles and all manner of Rubbish fill up their Memories, and compose their intellectual Possessions. 'Tis a great Happiness therefore to distinguish things aright, and to lay up nothing in the Memory but what has some just Value in it, and is worthy to be number'd as a Part of our Treasure.""",Coinage,2014-02-05 22:16:55 UTC,""
4702,"","Searching and Reading in Google Books
",2014-02-05 22:18:24 UTC,"Whatsoever Improvements arise to the Mind of Man from the wise Exercise of his own reasoning Powers, these may be called his proper Manufactures; and whatsoever he borrows from Abroad these may be termed his foreign Treasures: both together make a wealthy and happy Mind.
(p. 253)",,23378,"","""Whatsoever Improvements arise to the Mind of Man from the wise Exercise of his own reasoning Powers, these may be called his proper Manufactures; and whatsoever he borrows from Abroad these may be termed his foreign Treasures: both together make a wealthy and happy Mind.""",Coinage,2014-02-05 22:18:24 UTC,""
4702,"",Searching and Reading in Google Books,2014-02-05 22:33:16 UTC,"IT is needful therefore if we would maintain a long Remembrance of the Things which we read or hear that we should engage our Delight and Pleasure in those Subjects, and use the other Methods which are before prescribed in order to fix the Attention. Sloth, Indolence and idleness will no more bless the Mind with intellectual Riches, than it will fill the Hand with Gain, the Field with Corn, or the Purse with Treasure.
(p. 260)",,23390,"","""Sloth, Indolence and idleness will no more bless the Mind with intellectual Riches, than it will fill the Hand with Gain, the Field with Corn, or the Purse with Treasure.""",Coinage,2014-02-05 22:33:40 UTC,""