text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Now this is the first and hardest point of wisdom, when it is once learned and imprinted on the heart, O what docility is in the mind to more, what readiness to receive what follows? It makes a man a weaned child, a little simple child, tractable and and [sic] flexible as Christ would have all his disciples. A man this emptied and vacuated of self-conceit, these lines of natural pride, being blotted out, the soul is as a Tabula rasa, an unwritten table, to receive any impression of the law of God, that he pleases to put on it; and then his words are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge, Prov. viii. 9. then i say it is not difficult to understand, and to prove what is the good and acceptable will of God, Rom. xii. 2. Eph. [end page 41] v. 10. ----17. It is not up unto heaven, that thee shouldest say, who shall ascend to bring it down? [...]
(pp. 41-2)",2011-06-06 11:36:48 UTC,"""A man this emptied and vacuated of self-conceit, these lines of natural pride, being blotted out, the soul is as a Tabula rasa, an unwritten table, to receive any impression of the law of God, that he pleases to put on it; and then his words are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge, Prov. viii. 9. then i say it is not difficult to understand, and to prove what is the good and acceptable will of God, Rom. xii. 2. Eph. v. 10. ----17.""",2006-10-12 00:00:00 UTC,"",Blank Slate,2011-06-05,Writing,"","Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",13680,5085
"My father, as any body may naturally imagine, came down with my mother into the country, in but a pettish kind of a humour. The first twenty or five-and-twenty miles he did nothing in the world but fret and teaze himself, and indeed my mother too, about the cursed expence, which he said might every shilling of it have been saved;-- then what vexed him more than every thing else was the provoking time of the year,--which, as I told you, was towards the end of September, when his wall-fruit, and green gages especially, in which he was very curious, were just ready for pulling: --""Had he been whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand in any other month of the whole year, he should not have said three words about it.""
For the next two whole stages, no subject would go down, but the heavy blow he had sustain'd from the loss of a son, whom it seems he had fully reckon'd upon in his mind , and register'd down in his pocket-book, as a second staff for his old age, in case Bobby should fail him. ""The disappointment of this, he said, was ten times more to a wise man than all the money which the journey, & c. had cost him, put together,--rot the hundred and twenty pounds,--he did not mind it a rush.""
(pp. 92-4; Norton, 30)",2011-09-23 18:15:11 UTC,"""For the next two whole stages, no subject would go down, but the heavy blow he had sustain'd from the loss of a son, whom it seems he had fully reckon'd upon in his mind, and register'd down in his pocket-book, as a second staff for his old age, in case Bobby should fail him.""",2009-09-14 19:38:59 UTC,"Vol. 1, Chap. 16","",2003-10-23,Writing,Parallelism of mind and pocket-book.,"Found again searching ""mind"" and ""book"" HDIS (Prose)",13688,5088
"'The advantages,' said Almoran, 'which you seem to have discovered, are not evident to me: tell me, then, what you imagine they are, and I will afterwards give you my opinion.'
'By establishing a system of laws as the rule of government,' said Hamet, 'many evils will be avoided, and many benefits procured. If the law is the will only of the sovereign, it can never certainly be known to the people: many, therefore, may violate that rule of right, which the hand of the Almighty has written upon the living tablets of the heart, in the presumptuous hope, that it will not subject them to punishment; and those, by whom that rule is fulfilled, will not enjoy that consciousness of security, which they would derive from the protection of a prescribed law; which they have never broken. Neither will those who are inclined to do evil, be equally restrained by the fear of punishment; if neither the offence is ascertained, nor the punishment prescribed. One motive to probity, therefore, will be wanting; which ought to be supplied, as well for the sake of those who may be tempted to offend, as of those who may suffer by the offence. Besides, he who governs not by a written and a public law, must either administer that government in person, or by others: if in person, he will sink under a labour which no man is able to sustain; and if by others, the inferiority of their rank must subject them to temptations which it cannot be hoped they will always resist, and to prejudices which it will perhaps be impossible for them to surmount. But to administer government by a law which ascertains the offence, and directs the punishment, integrity alone will be sufficient; and as the perversion of justice will in this case be notorious, and depend not upon opinion but fact, it will seldom be practised, because it will be easily punished.'
(pp. 35-7)",2009-09-14 19:39:11 UTC,"""[M]any, therefore, may violate that rule of right, which the hand of the Almighty has written upon the living tablets of the heart""",2005-03-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol 1., Chap. 3","",,"",•I've included twice: Tablet and Law,"Searching ""heart"" and ""table"" in HDIS (Prose)",13772,5097
"The mind of the hearer might very well be a tabula rasa, free from every prejudice, and like soft wax, susceptible of every impression; and with all this, not yield to truth itself, pro- [end page 209] posed in the manner it is every day proposed, under the appearance of falsehood.
(pp. 209-10)",2014-09-01 19:41:06 UTC,"The mind of the hearer might very well be a tabula rasa, free from every prejudice, and like soft wax, susceptible of every impression; and with all this, not yield to truth itself, proposed in the manner it is every day proposed, under the appearance of falsehood.""",2006-10-12 00:00:00 UTC,"",Blank Slate,,Writing,•Ive included twice: Tabula Rasa and Wax,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",13787,5103
"Yea, the Soul herself is radically deprav'd and essentially invenom'd by her Disunion from God, so that she is the Seat of Defilement in the human Composition; even the Soul of an Infant since the lapse of the Protoplasts is no more born as a Tabula rasa, nor is that Saying of an Orator ""Homines nec boni neque; mali nascuntur"" true; but every Soul is originally disordered and spoil'd. Consonant to this Principle our Saviour himself has specified the Soul as the moving Force which accelerates the [end page 11] Body to the Practice of Voluptuousness, Intemperance and Luxury. The Body is the Machine which the Soul actuates and directs to perpetrate its Desires, so that the [GREEK CHARACTERS] as Paul stiles him, the Man whose Soul is unconverted is by the Darkness of his Understanding, the Preposterousness of his Will and the Disconcertedness of his Faculties and mental Properties embarrass'd with Evil and overwhelm'd therewith. The Body also reciprocally embroils and overpowers the Soul, and thus they mutually infest and entangle each other in Iniquity. Yet as Sin at its Entrance into the World came in by the Desire of the Soul, so the Soul is the Cause of every subsequent Transgression.
(p. 12)",2009-09-14 19:39:13 UTC,"""Yea, the Soul herself is radically deprav'd and essentially invenom'd by her Disunion from God, so that she is the Seat of Defilement in the human Composition; even the Soul of an Infant since the lapse of the Protoplasts is no more born as a Tabula rasa, nor is that Saying of an Orator ""Homines nec boni neque; mali nascuntur"" true; but every Soul is originally disordered and spoil'd.""",2006-10-12 00:00:00 UTC,"",Blank Slate,,Writing,"","Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",13789,5104
"[...] From which there is reason to suspect that no one of the human race is destitute of it. Our souls may come out of the hands of God pure and unpolluted, and the pollution take place upon our entering this state. Nor is it the result of personal action alone: it may perhaps be impossible for an innocent and unexperienced mind, commencing its infant existence in a polluted world, not to be very soon affected with the contagion. The great Mr. Locke has resembled the infant mind to a rasa tabula, as he expresses it a clean piece of paper, with no inscriptions, tho' susceptible of them. This is equally true of internal propensities, as of acquisitions in knowledge. Some indeed suppose or speak, as if they supposed that the pure and holy God infused into the soul at its first creation, and on its entrance into the world, the impure and unholy propensities both of flesh and spirit, which we find to have usurped the governing possession of us by the time we become capable of moral action; and consequently that our natures, as they come out of the hand of the benevolent creator, are corrupt, impure, and unholy. But the learned president EDWARDS has asserted, that the doctrine of original sin, according to the sense and explication of the most orthodox divines, implies no such thing:--but that, we coming pure out of the hands of God, or impurity and defilement is altogether consequential upon our entrance into this world. [...]
(p. 11)",2009-09-14 19:39:13 UTC,"""The great Mr. Locke has resembled the infant mind to a rasa tabula, as he expresses it a clean piece of paper, with no inscriptions, tho' susceptible of them.""",2006-10-12 00:00:00 UTC,"",Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy,,"","","Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",13792,5105
"Grant that corporeal is the human mind,
It must have parts in infinitum join'd;
And each of these must will, perceive, design,
And draw confus'dly in a different line;
Which then can claim dominion o'er the rest,
Or stamp the ruling passion in the breast?",2009-09-14 19:40:21 UTC,"If the mind is corporeal it must be composed of infinite parts: ""Which then can claim dominion o'er the rest, / Or stamp the ruling passion in the breast""",2004-05-24 00:00:00 UTC,"",Ruling Passion / Materialism,,"",
•I've included this entry twice: once in Government and once in Writing.
•Jenyns attempts a reductio ad absurdum. INTEREST. REVISIT and read whole poem.,"Searching ""ruling passion"" in HDIS (Poetry);",14234,5302
"This then's the first great law by Nature giv'n,
Stamp'd on our souls, and ratify'd by Heav'n;
All from utility this law approve,
As ev'ry private bliss must spring from social love.
",2009-09-14 19:40:23 UTC,"""This then's the first great law by Nature giv'n, / Stamp'd on our souls, and ratify'd by Heav'n""",2005-04-08 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"",•I've included twice: Stamping and Law
,"Searching ""soul"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Poetry)",14248,5302
"CLODIUS.
No more, I sleep o'er Cato's drowsy theme:
He is the Senate's drone, and dreams of Liberty,
When Rome's vast Empire is set up to sale,
And portion'd out to each ambitious bidder
In marketable lots.--But now proceed;
Give me more names; these many I have wrote
Deep in the vengeful tablets of my heart.
GABINIUS.
Then in the front and foremost page of all
Print deep in everlasting characters,
The hated name of Milo; his alone,
When every other eye was red with tears,
His only burnt with hot and scalding rage;
He hates thee, Clodius; and when all were loud
For mourning, he with a disdainful air
Throwing his mantle by, in public view
Shew'd them his mailed corselet, bid 'em mark it;
For 'twas a Roman's dress; their sable scarves,
Them, as he said, he left to puling maids
And sedentary widows.
(p. 11)",2013-09-04 01:51:17 UTC,"""But now proceed; / Give me more names; these many I have wrote / Deep in the vengeful tablets of my heart.""",2013-09-04 01:51:17 UTC,"","",,Writing,"",LION,22672,7669
"CLODIUS.
Injurious woman,
Wou'd that men's thoughts were graven on their hearts!
So should these hands of mine to thy confusion
Pluck out the bleeding witness of my truth,
And die upon the proof.
(p. 73)
",2013-09-04 02:11:31 UTC,"""Injurious woman, / Wou'd that men's thoughts were graven on their hearts!""",2013-09-04 02:11:31 UTC,"","",,Writing,"",LION,22684,7669