text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Let me, therfore, most earnestly recommend to you, to hoard up, while you can, a great stock of knowledge; for though, during the dissipation of your youth, you may not have occasion to spend much of it; yet, you may depend upon it, that a time will come, when you will want it to maintain you. Public granaries are filled in plentiful years; not that it is known that the next, or the second, or the third year will prove a scarce one; but because it is known that, sooner or later, such a year will come, in which the grain will be wanted.
(I.lxxx, p. 239 [pp. 42-3 in Roberts ed.], BATH, October 4, O.S. 1746)",2013-06-21 18:03:34 UTC,"""Let me, therfore, most earnestly recommend to you, to hoard up, while you can, a great stock of knowledge; for though, during the dissipation of your youth, you may not have occasion to spend much of it; yet, you may depend upon it, that a time will come, when you will want it to maintain you. Public granaries are filled in plentiful years; not that it is known that the next, or the second, or the third year will prove a scarce one; but because it is known that, sooner or later, such a year will come, in which the grain will be wanted.""",2005-03-21 00:00:00 UTC,"LXXX, 1, p. 195","",,"","","Reading S. H. Clark's ""Locke and Metaphor Reconsidered"" in JHI 59:2 (1998) p. 253; found again",14574,5452
"It is, indeed, no ways extraordinary that the mind should be charmed by fancy, and attracted by pleasure; but that we should listen to the groans of misery, and delight to view the exacerbations of complicated anguish, that we should chuse to chill the bosom with imaginary fears, and dim the eyes with fictitious sorrow, seems a kind of paradox of the heart, and only to be credited because it is universally felt. Various are the hypotheses which have been formed to account for the disposition of the mind to riot in this species of intellectual luxury. Some have imagined that we are induced to acquiesce with greater patience in our own lot, by beholding pictures of life tinged with deeper horrors, and loaded with more excruciating calamities; as, to a person suddenly emerging out of a dark room, the faintest glimmering of twilight assumes a lustre from the contrasted gloom. Others, with yet deeper refinement, suppose that we take upon ourselves this burden of adscititious sorrows in order to feast upon the consciousness of our own virtue. We commiserate others (say they) that we may applaud ourselves; and the sigh of compassionate sympathy is always followed by the gratulations of self-complacent esteem. But surely they who would thus reduce the sympathetic emotions of pity to a system of refined selfishness, have but ill attended to the genuine feelings of humanity. It would however exceed the limits of this paper, should I attempt an accurate investigation of these sentiments. But let it be remembered, that we are more attracted by those scenes which interest our passions, or gratify our curiosity, than those which delight our fancy: and so far from being indifferent to the miseries of others, we are, at the time, totally regardless of our own. And let not those, on whom the hand of time has impressed the characters of oracular wisdom, censure with too much acrimony productions which are thus calculated to please the imagination, and interest the heart. They teach us to think, by inuring us to feel: they ventilate the mind by sudden gusts of passion; and prevent the stagnation of thought, by a fresh infusion of dissimilar ideas. ",2009-09-14 19:41:18 UTC,"""Some have imagined that we are induced to acquiesce with greater patience in our own lot, by beholding pictures of life tinged with deeper horrors, and loaded with more excruciating calamities; as, to a person suddenly emerging out of a dark room, the faintest glimmering of twilight assumes a lustre from the contrasted gloom""",2005-09-03 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Rooms,•Cross-reference: Locke? A sly allusion it would be...,Searching internet for something else: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/barbauldessays.html,14581,5457
"4. The effects produced on sinister interest--on sinister interest in these high places--by the wounds thus given to it, may without much difficulty be imagined. But the greatest happiness of the greatest number requires, that they should be not only imagined but proved: and this they shall now be, in so far as natural probability, aided by whatever support it may be thought to receive from the character of the narrator, can gain credence, for the indication given of a set of actings and workings, of which, for the most part, the mind, in its most secret recesses, was the theatre. These effects the reader will see in the deportments of the various personages--keepers and workers of the state engines--in relation to the present work and another by the same hand; and among them will be found the several shining lights, to which, by the conjecturists, who thereby so clearly proved themselves not to have been members of the above-mentioned conclave, the work was, as above, ascrib",2009-09-14 19:41:34 UTC,"""But the greatest happiness of the greatest number requires, that they should be not only imagined but proved: and this they shall now be, in so far as natural probability, aided by whatever support it may be thought to receive from the character of the narrator, can gain credence, for the indication given of a set of actings and workings, of which, for the most part, the mind, in its most secret recesses, was the theatre.""",2006-04-13 00:00:00 UTC,"Historical Preface, Intended for the Second Edition","",,Theater,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""theatre"" in Past Masters ",14662,5481
"With the other mode of existence we are sufficiently acquainted, being that in which Providence has placed us, and all things around us, [end page 65] during our residence on this terrestrial globe; in which all ideas follow each other in our minds in a regular and uniform succession, not unlike the tickings of a clock; and by that means all objects are presented to our imaginations in the same progressive manner: and if any vary much from that destined pace, by too rapid, or too slow a motion, they immediately become to us totally imperceptible. We now perceive every one, as it passes, through a small aperture separately, as in the camera obscura, and this we call time; but at the conclusion of this state we may probably exist in a manner quite different; the window may be thrown open, the whole prospect appear at one view, and all this appa- [end page 66] ratus, which we call time, be totally done away: for time is certainly nothing more, than the shifting of scenes necessary for the performance of this tragi-comical farce, which we are here exhibiting, and must undoubtedly end. with the conclusion of the drama. It has no more a real essence, independent of thought and action, than sight, hearing, and smell have, independent of their proper organs, and the animals to whom they belong; and when they cease to exist, time can be no more. There are also several passages in the scriptures, declaring this annihilation of time, at the consummation of all things: And the Angel, which I saw stand vpon, the sea and the earth, lifted up his hand [end page 67] towards heaven, and swore by him that liveth for ever and ever, &c. that there should be time no longer*.
(pp. 65-7)",2009-09-14 19:49:27 UTC,"""We now perceive every [idea], as it passes, through a small aperture separately, as in the camera obscura, and this we call time; but at the conclusion of this state we may probably exist in a manner quite different; the window may be thrown open, the whole prospect appear at one view, and all this apparatus, which we call time, be totally done away.""",2009-01-26 00:00:00 UTC,"4. ""On The Nature of Time""","",,"",I've included twice: Camera Obscura and Window,Reading,17220,6477
"Cleon. I have already mentioned the BRAIN as the Capital Organ of all Sensation, and from it the Nerves all originate.--I must now further observe to you, that the Brain is also the Seat or Residence of the MIND or SOUL of the Animal.--That it is the Grand Emporium of all Intelligence, and of all Ideas and Species of external Objects presented there by the Nerves.--Hence the Truth of the Axiom, that nothing can exist in the Mind that was not first in the Senses.
(p. 13)",2010-06-07 15:54:17 UTC,"""I must now further observe to you, that the Brain is also the Seat or Residence of the MIND or SOUL of the Animal.--That it is the Grand Emporium of all Intelligence, and of all Ideas and Species of external Objects presented there by the Nerves.""",2010-06-07 15:53:54 UTC,"","",,Empire,"REVISIT. INTEREST. USE IN ENTRY
I should read the rest of this text. Martin is an important popularizer of science in c18.","Searching ""emporium"" in ECCO",17860,6713
"3. That perhaps this may be a state of imprisonment to the soul, as many of the philosophers thought; and that when it is set at liberty from the body, it may obtain new and noble ways of perception and action, to us at present unknown.
(Part IV, Demonstration V, Scholium 3, p. 324) ",2011-09-15 17:57:49 UTC,"""That perhaps this may be a state of imprisonment to the soul, as many of the philosophers thought; and that when it is set at liberty from the body, it may obtain new and noble ways of perception and action, to us at present unknown.""",2011-09-15 17:57:49 UTC,"","",,"","",Reading in Google Books,19178,7094
"As it is the character of Genius to penetrate with a lynx's beam into unfathomable abysses and uncreated worlds, and to see what is not, so it is the property of good sense to distinguish perfectly, and judge accurately what really is. Good sense has not so piercing an eye, but it has as clear a sight: it does not penetrate so deeply, but as far as it does see, it discerns distinctly. Good sense is a judicious mechanic, who can produce beauty and convenience out of suitable means; but Genius (I speak with reverence of the immeasurable distance) bears some remote resemblance to the divine architect, who produced perfection of beauty without any visible materials, who spake, and it was created; who said, Let it be, and it was.
(pp. 213-4)",2013-10-16 17:28:56 UTC,"""Good sense is a judicious mechanic, who can produce beauty and convenience out of suitable means; but Genius (I speak with reverence of the immeasurable distance) bears some remote resemblance to the divine architect, who produced perfection of beauty without any visible materials, 'who spake, and it was created'; who said, 'Let it be, and it was.'""",2013-10-16 17:28:56 UTC,"","",,Inhabitants,"",ECCO-TCP,23035,7739
"Tuesday, 15. I went on to Witney. I am surprised at the plainness and artlessness of this people. Who would imagine, that they lived within ten, yea, or fifty miles of Oxford? Wednesday, 16. I preached at South-lye. Here it was, that I preached my first sermon, six and forty years ago. One man was in my present audience, who heard it. Most of the rest are gone to their long home. After preaching at Witney in the Evening, I met the believers apart, and was greatly refreshed among them. So simple a people I scarce ever saw. They did ""open the window in their breast."" And it was easy to discern, that God was there, filling them with joy and peace in believing.
(p. 42)",2014-06-20 17:40:52 UTC,"""So simple a people I scarce ever saw. They did 'open the window in their breast.' And it was easy to discern, that God was there, filling them with joy and peace in believing.""",2014-06-20 17:40:22 UTC,"","",,Rooms,"USE IN ENTRY?
Notes: October, 1770. Google Books search turns up same window quotation in an 1827 Methodist miscellany, under the heading Taste. Add to Rooms? ",Reading at British Library,24064,7940
"If solid matter, either and entire solid, or a solid surrounding a vacuum, then the representation of objects in all their dimensions may be molded in the solid itself, or may be introduced into the included vacuum, as the furniture in a room. These solid representations must be of a texture hard and firm, else how can the mind retain its ideas? Yet they must be sufficiently soft and yielding instantly to admit of new shapes, else how shall we account for the quick succession of ideas? What becomes of the old furniture when the new is continually introduced? In what hidden cells are these solid ideas lodged, that they may be produced again in good repair when wanted to fill the apartments of memory? What gives life to these figures; and how are they perceived and felt?
(pp. 34-5)",2014-06-22 03:39:46 UTC,"""What becomes of the old furniture when the new is continually introduced? In what hidden cells are these solid ideas lodged, that they may be produced again in good repair when wanted to fill the apartments of memory?""",2014-06-22 03:39:46 UTC,"","",,Rooms,INTEREST: USE IN ENTRY?,Reading (in the British Library),24094,7946
"MOMUS, the god of jesting among the poets, who ridiculed both Gods and Men. Being chosen by Vulcan, Neptune and Minerva, to give his judgment concerning their works, he blamed them all; Neptune for not making his bull with horns before his eyes; Minerva for building a house that could not be removed in case of bad neighbours; and Vulcan for making a man without a window in his breast, that his treacheries might be seen.
(vol. II)",2014-09-01 16:58:49 UTC,"""Being chosen by Vulcan, Neptune and Minerva, to give his judgment concerning their works, he blamed them all; Neptune for not making his bull with horns before his eyes; Minerva for building a house that could not be removed in case of bad neighbours; and Vulcan for making a man without a window in his breast, that his treacheries might be seen.""",2014-09-01 16:58:38 UTC,"","",,Rooms,"",Searching in ECCO,24423,8022