work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 3276,"","Reading S. H. Clark's ""Locke and Metaphor Reconsidered"" in JHI 59:2 (1998), p. 253",2005-03-21 00:00:00 UTC,"I Cannot but think my self beholden to any Occasion that procures me the Honour of a Letter from you. I return my Acknowledgments for those great Expressions of Civilty and Marks of Friendship I receiv'd in yours of the eighth Instant; and wish I had the Opportunity to shew the Esteem I have of your Merit, and the Sense of your Kindness to me, in any real Service. The Desire of your Friend in the inclos'd Letter you sent me, is what of my self I am inclin'd to satisfy: and am only sorry, that so copious a Subject has lost, in my bad Memory, so much of what heretofore I could have said, concerning the Great and Good Man, of whom he enquires. Time, I daily find, blots out apace the little Stock of my Mind, and has disabled me from furnishing all that I would willingly contribute to the Memory of that Learned Man. But give me leave to assure you, that I have not know a fitter Person than he, to be preserv'd as an Example, and propos'd to the Imitation of Men of Letters. [...]
(p. 7)",,8537,"3322 VIII, 42 in Works...","""Time, I daily find, blots out apace the little Stock of my Mind, and has disabled me from furnishing all that I would willingly contribute to the Memory of that Learned Man..""",Writing,2013-10-13 15:54:00 UTC,""