work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5826,Magnetism,Reading,2005-05-09 00:00:00 UTC,"The instant I had uttered these words, I felt what it was that I had done. There was a magnetical sympathy between me and my patron, so that their effect was not sooner produced upon him, than my own mind reproached me with the inhumanity of the allusion. Our confusion was mutual. The blood forsook at once the transparent complexion of Mr. Falkland, and then ruched back again with rapidity and fierceness. I dared not utter a word, lest I should commit a new error worse than that into which I had just fallen. After a short, but severe struggle to continue the conversation, Mr. Falkland began with trepidation, but afterwards became calmer:--
(p. 186)",,15563,"•Note the momentary transparency of Falkland. On the page that follows Falkland looks at Caleb ""as if he would see my very soul"" (187)","""There was a magnetical sympathy between me and my patron""",Metal,2009-09-14 19:43:59 UTC,""
6833,"",Reading,2011-05-19 20:53:37 UTC,"As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism; a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe in a man rather than in God. It is a compound made up chiefly of Manism with but little Deism, and is as near to Atheism as twilight is to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a Redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious or an irreligious eclipse of light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.
(p. 424)",,18441,"","""It [Christianity] has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.""","",2011-05-19 20:53:37 UTC,""
7587,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,2014-07-12 17:45:08 UTC,"After having been for a considerable time insensible, she was recovered by the exertions of those by whom the body was found. She had sought, with cool and deliberate firmness, to put a period to her existence, and yet she lived to have every prospect of a long possession of enjoyment and happiness. It is perhaps not an unfrequent case with suicides, that we find reason to suppose, if they had survived their gloomy purpose, that they would, at a subsequent period, have been considerably happy. It arises indeed, in some measure, out of the very nature of a spirit of self-destruction; which implies a degree of anguish, that the consistution of the human mind will not suffer to remain long undiminished. This is a serious reflection, Probably no man would destroy himself from an impatience of present pain, if he felt a moral certainty that there were years of enjoyment still in reserve for him. It is perhaps a futile attempt, to think of reasoning with a man in that state of mind which precedes suicide. Moral reasoning is nothing but the awakening of certain feelings; and the feeling by which he is actuated, is too strong to leave us much chance of impressing him with other feelings, that should have force enough to counterbalance it. But, if the prospect of future tranquillity and pleasure cannot be expected to have much weight with a man under an immediate purpose of suicide, it is so much the more to be wished, that men would impress their minds, in their sober moments, with a conception, which, being rendered habitual, seems to promise to act as a successful antidote in a paroxysm of desperation.
(pp. 134-136)",,24170,"","""Moral reasoning is nothing but the awakening of certain feelings; and the feeling by which he is actuated, is too strong to leave us much chance of impressing him with other feelings, that should have force enough to counterbalance it.""",Impressions,2014-07-12 17:45:08 UTC,""