work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3948,"","Searching ""mind"" in Ad Fontes's Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts",2005-07-20 00:00:00 UTC,"The Third Head in this Article, is that which is negatively expressed, That God is without Body, Parts, or Passions. In general, all these are so plainly contrary to the Ideas of Infinite Perfection, and they appear so evidently to be Imperfections, that this part of the Article will need little Explanation. We do plainly perceive that our Bodies are clogs to our Minds: And all the use that even the purest sort of Body in an Estate conceived to be glorified, can be of to a Mind, is to be an Instrument of local Motion, or to be a repository of Ideas for Memory and Imagination: But God, who is every where, and is one pure and simple Act, can have no such use for a Body. A Mind dwelling in a Body, is in many respects superior to it; yet in some [end page 54] respects is under it. We who feel how an Act of our Mind can so direct the Motions of our Body, that a thought sets our Limbs and Joints a-going, can from thence conceive, how that the whole extent of Matter, should receive such Motions as the Acts of the Supreme Mind give it: But yet not as a Body united to it, or that the Deity either needs such a Body, or can receive any trouble from it. Thus far the apprehension of the thing is very plainly made out to us. Our thoughts put some parts of our Body in a present Motion, when the Organization is regular, and all the parts are exact; and when there is no Obstruction in those Vessels or Passages through which that heat, and those Spirits do pass that cause the motion. We do in this perceive, that a thought does command matter; but our Minds are limited to our Bodies, and these do not obey them; but as they are in an exact disposition and a fitness to be so moved. Now these are plain Imperfections, but removing them from God, we can from hence apprehend that all the Matter in the Universe, may be so intirely subject to the Divine Mind, that it shall move and be whatsoever, and wheresoever he will have it to be. This is that which all men do agree in.
(pp. 54-5)",2011-08-31,10263,"","""A Mind dwelling in a Body, is in many respects superior to it; yet in some respects is under it.""",Inhabitants,2011-08-31 13:29:37 UTC,""
3948,"","Searching ""mind"" in Ad Fontes's Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts",2005-07-20 00:00:00 UTC,"All those Invisible Beings were created by God, and are not to be considered as Emanations or Rays of his Essence, which was a gross Conceit of such Philosophers as fancied that the Deity had Parts. They are Beings Created by him, and are capable of passing through various Scenes, in Bodies more or less refined: In this Life the State of our Minds receives vast Alterations from the State of our Bodies,
which ripen gradually: And after they are come to their full growth, they cannot hold in that condition long, but sink down much faster than they grew up; some Humours or Diseases discomposing the Brain, which is the Seat of the Mind so entirely, that it cannot serve it, at least so far as to Reflex Acts. So in the next State it is possible that we may at first be in a less perfect condition by reason of this,
that we may have a less perfect Body, to which we may be united between our Death, and the General Resurrection; and there may be a time in which we may receive a vast Addition and Exaltation in that State, by the raising up of our former Bodies, and the reuniting us to them, which may give us a greater compass, and a higher Elevation.
(p. 66)",,10264,"","""And after they are come to their full growth, they cannot hold in that condition long, but sink down much faster than they grew up; some Humours or Diseases discomposing the Brain, which is the Seat of the Mind so entirely, that it cannot serve it, at least so far as to Reflex Acts.""",Throne,2011-08-31 04:33:27 UTC,""
4457,"",Searching in HDIS (Drama),2006-07-06 00:00:00 UTC,"L. GRA.
That you are not restrain'd from unlawful Pleasures, by the Love of Virtue, but Variety; and that your Husband is not safe, from having no Rival, but from having a great many; for your Heart is like a Coffee-House, where the Beaus frisk in and out, one after another; and you are as little the worse for them, as the other is the better; for one Lover, like one Poyson, is your Antidote against another.",,11751,"•Strangely, this was missing when last I went looking for it in the database. had it been mistakenly deleted? I hope I don't do that very often","""[Y]our Heart is like a Coffee-House, where the Beaus frisk in and out, one after another; and you are as little the worse for them, as the other is the better""","",2009-09-14 19:36:13 UTC,"Act I, scene i"
4742,"","Searching ""reason"" and ""window"" in HDIS (Drama)",2006-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"HEART.
There goes an Instance of the great Power our Reason hath over our Passions. But hold,-- Why should I seek Instances abroad, who have so sufficient an Example in my own Breast--Where had Reason the Dominion, I should have long since expell'd the little Tyrant, who hath made such Ravage there--Of what Use is Reason then? Why, of the Use that a Window is to a Man in a Prison, to let him see the Horrors he is confined in; but lends him no Assistance to his Escape.",,12520,•I've included twice: Window and Prison.
•INTEREST. USE in entry. I really like this metaphor.,"""Of what Use is Reason then? Why, of the Use that a Window is to a Man in a Prison, to let him see the Horrors he is confined in; but lends him no Assistance to his Escape""",Rooms,2009-09-14 19:37:04 UTC,"Act V, scene iv"
4812,"",Reading,2009-09-14 19:37:29 UTC,"As he did not, however, outwardly express any such Disgust, it would be an ill Office in us to pay a Visit to the inmost Recesses of his Mind, as some scandalous People search into the most secret Affairs of their Friends, and often pry into their Closets and Cupboards only to discover their Poverty and Meanness to the World.
(II.iv.3, pp. 14-15; cf. p. 120)",2006-06-05,12864,"","""[I]t would be an ill Office in us to pay a Visit to the inmost Recesses of his Mind, as some scandalous People search into the most secret Affairs of their Friends, and often pry into their Closets and Cupboards only to discover their Poverty and Meanness to the World.""",Rooms,2014-08-10 08:03:07 UTC,"Vol. II, Book iv, Chap. 3"
4875,"",HDIS (Prose),2009-09-14 19:37:42 UTC,"He said, he had discovered, that as she valued herself chiefly on her Understanding, so she was extremely jealous of mine, and hated me on Account of my Learning. That as he had loved me passionately from his first seeing me, and had thought of Nothing, from that Time, but of throwing himself at my Feet, he saw no Way so open to propitiate my Aunt as that which he had taken; by commending my Beauty, a Perfection to which she had long resigned all Claim, at the Expence of my Understanding, in which he lamented my Deficiency to a Degree almost of Ridicule. This he imputed chiefly to my Learning; on this Occasion he advanced a Sentiment, which so pleased my Aunt, that she thought proper to make it her own: For I heard it afterwards more than once from her own Mouth. Learning, he said, had the same Effect on the Mind, that strong Liquors have on the Constitution; both tending to eradicate all our natural Fire and Energy. His Flattery had made such a Dupe of my Aunt, that she assented, without the least Suspicion of his Sincerity, to all he said; so sure is Vanity to weaken every Fortress of the Understanding, and to betray us to every Attack of the Enemy.
You will believe, Madam, that I readily forgave him all he had said, not only from that Motive which I have mentioned, but as I was assured he had spoke the Reverse of his real Sentiments. I was not, however, quite so well pleased with my Aunt, who began to treat me as if I was really an Ideot. Her Contempt, I own, a little piqued me; and I could not help often expressing my Resentment, when we were alone together, to Mr. Bennet; who never failed to gratify me, by making her Conceit the Subject of his Wit; a Talent which he possessed in the most extraordinary Degree.
(III.vii.5)",,13051,See previous,"""His Flattery had made such a Dupe of my Aunt, that she assented, without the least Suspicion of his Sincerity, to all he said; so sure is Vanity to weaken every Fortress of the Understanding, and to betray us to every Attack of the Enemy.""",Rooms,2013-07-17 04:35:44 UTC,""
4875,"",HDIS (Prose),2009-09-14 19:37:43 UTC,"'Indeed, my dear Sir,' cries Amelia, you are the wisest as well as best Man in the World--'
'Not a Word of my Wisdom,' cries the Doctor. 'I have not a Grain---I am not the least versed in the Chrematistic Art, as an old Friend of mine calls it. I know not how to get a single Shilling, nor how to keep it in my Pocket when I have it.'
'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'
'You are a little Flatterer,' cries the Doctor; 'but I dislike you not for it. And to shew you I don't, I will return your Flattery; and tell you, you have acted with great Prudence in concealing this Affair from your Husband; but you have drawn me into a Scrape: For I have promised to dine with this Fellow again To-morrow; and you have made it impossible for me to keep my Word.' (III.ix.5)",2003-10-23,13059,"REVISIT. INTEREST.
•I should doublecheck the prevailing sense of treasury in the c18. What is a treasury here? Building, government, or book? (This is the kind of example a poststructuralist delights in...)
•The OED gives as a first definition: ""1. A room or building in which precious or valuable objects are preserved, esp. a place or receptacle for money or valuables (now Hist. ); transf. the funds or revenue of a state or of a public or private corporation."" and as a second definition: ""2. fig. A repository of 'treasures'; a thesaurus; a 'treasure-house', 'storehouse'.""
•So the entry could be put in 'Architecture' or 'Writing'? Notice this OED citation of Chaucer: ""c1384 CHAUCER H. Fame II .16 In the tresorye hyt shette Of my brayn""","""'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'""",Coinage and Rooms and Writing,2013-06-11 18:25:21 UTC,""
4875,"",HDIS,2009-09-14 19:37:43 UTC,"'But if you can be so lost to all Sense of Fear, and of Shame, and of Goodness, as not to be debarred by the Evil which you are to bring on yourself, by the extreme Baseness of the Action, nor by the Ruin in which you are to involve others, let me still urge the Difficulty, I may say the Impossibility of the Success. You are attacking a Fortress on a Rock; a Chastity so strongly defended, as well, by a happy natural Disposition of Mind , as by the strongest Principles of Religion and Virtue, implanted by Education, and nourished and improved by Habit, that the Woman must be invincible even without that firm and constant Affection of her Husband, which would guard a much looser and worse disposed Heart. What therefore are you attempting but to introduce Distrust, and perhaps Disunion between an innocent and a happy Couple, in which too you cannot succeed without bringing, I am convinced, certain Destruction on your own Head?
'Desist, therefore, let me advise you, from this enormous Crime; retreat from the vain Attempt of climbing a Precipice which it is impossible you should ever ascend, where you must probably soon fall into utter Perdition, and can have no other Hope but of dragging down your best Friend into Perdition with you.
(IV.x.2)",,13062,"",The heart is a fortress on a rock,"",2009-09-14 19:37:43 UTC,""
4875,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""cell"" in HDIS (Prose)",2005-08-29 00:00:00 UTC,"Whether Amelia's Beauty, or the Reflexion on the remarkable Act of Justice he had performed, or whatever Motive filled the Magistrate with extraordinary good Humour, and opened his Heart and Cellars, I will not determine; but he gave them so hearty a Welcome, and they were all so pleased with each other, that Amelia, for that one Night, trusted the Care of her Children to the Woman where they lodged, nor did the Company rise from Table till the Clock struck eleven.",,13114,
,"""Whether Amelia's Beauty, or the Reflexion on the remarkable Act of Justice he had performed, or whatever Motive filled the Magistrate with extraordinary good Humour, and opened his Heart and Cellars, I will not determine;""","",2009-09-14 19:37:47 UTC,"Vol. 4, Book 12, Chap. 7"
7637,"",LION,2013-08-20 04:25:49 UTC,"KISSINDA.
Poor Lovegirlo's slain.
Oh! give me way, come all you Furies, come,
Lodge in th'unfurnish'd Chambers of my Heart,
My Heart which never shall be let again
To any Guest but endless Misery,
Never shall have a Bill upon it more.
Oh! I am mad methinks, I swim in Air,
In Seas of Sulphur and eternal Fire,
And see Lovegirlo too.
(p. 30)",,22500,"","""Oh! give me way, come all you Furies, come, / Lodge in th'unfurnish'd Chambers of my Heart, / My Heart which never shall be let again / To any Guest but endless Misery, / Never shall have a Bill upon it more.""",Inhabitants and Rooms,2013-08-20 04:25:49 UTC,""