work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4793,"",Searching in HDIS,2004-04-27 00:00:00 UTC,"[...] --He has seen a little, and but a little service, and yet if you will take his word for it, there has not been a great action performed in the field since the revolution, in which he was not principally concerned. When a story is told of any great general, he immediately matches it with one of himself, though he is often unhappy in his invention, and commits such gross blunders in the detail, that every body is in pain for him.--Cæsar, Pompey, and Alexander the Great are continually in his mouth; and as he reads a good deal without any judgment to digest it, his ideas are confused, and his harrangues as unintelligible as infinite; for, once he begins, there is no chance of his leaving off speaking, while one person remains to yield attention; therefore the only expedient I know, of putting a stop to his loquacity, is to lay hold of some incongruity he has uttered, and demand an explanation; or ask the meaning of some difficult term that he knows by name only, this will effectually put him to silence, if not to flight, as it happened when I enquired about an epaulement. [...]",,12745,•Excised from an enormous paragraph.,"""Cæsar, Pompey, and Alexander the Great are continually in his mouth; and as he reads a good deal without any judgment to digest it, his ideas are confused, and his harrangues as unintelligible as infinite.""","",2013-10-25 18:08:51 UTC,""
4861,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""exercise"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2007-03-20 00:00:00 UTC,"In consequence of this reduction, which happened in the most severe season of the year, he was obliged to return to his own country, thro' infinite hardships, to which he was exposed from the narrowness of his circumstances; and continuing still enamoured of a military life, he entered into the regiment of Scotch greys, at that time commanded by the late Sir James Campbell, who being acquainted with his family and character, encouraged him with the promise of speedy preferment. In this corps he remained three years, during which, he had no opportunity of seeing actual service, except at the affair of Glensheel; and this life of insipid quiet, must have hung heavy upon a youth of M---'s active disposition, had not he found exercise for the mind, in'reading books of amusement, history, voyages, and geography, together with those that treated of the art of war ancient and modern, for which he contracted such an eager appetite, that he used to spend sixteen hours a day in this employment. About that time, he became acquainted with a gentleman of learning and taste, who observing his indefatigable application, and insatiable thirst after knowledge, took upon himself the charge of superintending his studies; and by the direction of such an able guide, the young soldier converted his attention to a more solid and profitable course of reading. So inordinate was his desire of making speedy advances [Page 179] in the paths of learning, that within the compass of three months, he diligently perused the writings of Lock, and Malbranche, and made himself master of the first six, and of the eleventh and twelfth books of Euclid's elements. He considered Puffendorf and Grotius with uncommon care, acquired a tolerable degree of knowledge in the French language, and his imagination was so captivated with the desire of learning, that seeing no prospect of a war, or views of being provided for in the service, he quitted the army, and went through a regular course of university education. Having made such progress in his studies, he resolved to qualify himself for the church, and acquired such a stock of school divinity under the instructions of a learned professor at Edinburgh, that he more than once mounted the rostrum, in the public hall, and held forth with uncommon applause: But being discouraged from a prosecution of his plan, by the unreasonable austerity of some of the Scotch clergy, by whom, the most indifferent and innocent words and actions, were often misconstrued into levity and misconduct; he resolved to embrace the first favourable opportunity of going abroad, being enflamed with the desire of seeing foreign countries, and actually set out for Holland, where for the space of two years, he studied the Roman law, with the law of nature and nations, under the famous professors Tolieu and Barbyrac.",,16955,"","""In this corps he remained three years, during which, he had no opportunity of seeing actual service, except at the affair of Glensheel; and this life of insipid quiet, must have hung heavy upon a youth of M---'s active disposition, had not he found exercise for the mind, in'reading books of amusement, history, voyages, and geography, together with those that treated of the art of war ancient and modern, for which he contracted such an eager appetite, that he used to spend sixteen hours a day in this employment.""","",2009-09-14 19:48:32 UTC,"Vol. 4, Chap. 106"
5112,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""exercise"" in HDIS (Prose)",2007-03-20 00:00:00 UTC,"The doctor, who had practised on board a man of war in his youth, and was perfectly well acquainted with the Captain's dialect, assured him, that if his bottom was damaged, he would new-pay it with an excellent salve, which he always carried about him, to guard against such accidents on the road: but Tom Clarke, who seemed to have cast the eyes of affection upon the landlady's eldest daughter, Dolly, objected to their proceeding farther without rest and refreshment, as they had already travelled fifty miles since morning; and he was sure his uncle must be fatigued both in mind and body, from vexation as well as from a hard exercise, to which he had not been accustomed. Fillet then desisted, saying, he was sorry to find the Captain had any cause for vexation; but he hoped it was not an incurable evil. This expression was accompanied with a look of curiosity, which Mr. Clarke was glad of an occasion to gratify; for, as we have hinted above, he was a very communicative gentleman, and the affair which now lay upon his stomach interested him nearly. ""I'll assure you, Sir, (said he) this here gentleman, captain Crowe, who is my mother's own brother, has been cruelly used by some of his relations. He bears as good a character as any captain of a ship on the Royal Exchange, and has undergone a variety of hardships at sea. What d'ye think, now, of his bursting all his sinews, and making his eyes start out of his head, in pulling his ship off a rock, whereby he saved to his owners.""----Here he was interrupted by the Captain, who exclaimed, ""Belay, Tom Belay:----prithee, don't veer out such a deal of jaw. Clap a stopper on thy cable, and bring thyself up, my lad.-----What a deal of stuff thou hast pumped up concerning bursting, and starting, and pulling ships, Laud have mercy upon us!----Look ye here brother----look ye here----mind these poor crippled joints: two fingers on the starboard, and three on the larboard hand: crooked, d'ye see, like the knees of a bilander.---I'll tell you what, brother, you seem to be a----ship deep laden----rich cargoe---current setting into the bay----hard gale---lee shore---all hands in the boat---tow round the headland---self pulling for dear blood, against the whole crew.---Snap go the finger-braces---crack went the eye-blocks.---Bounce daylight---flash starlight---down I foundered, dark as hell---whizz went my ears, and my head spun like a whirligig.---That don't signify---I'm a Yorkshire boy, as the saying is---all my life at sea, brother, by reason of an old grandmother and maiden aunt, a couple of old stinking---kept me these forty years out of my grandfather's estate.---Hearing as how they had taken their departure, came ashore, hired horses, and clapped on all my canvas, steering to the northward, to take possession of my---But it don't signify talking---these two old piratical---had held a palaver with a lawyer---an attorney, Tom, d'ye mind me, an attorney----and by his assistance hove me out of my inheritance:---that is all, brother---hove me out of five hundred pounds a year----that's all---what signifies---but such windfalls we don't every day pick up along shore.---Fill about, brother---yes, by the Lord! those two smuggling harridans, with the assistance of an attorney---an attorney, Tom---hove me out of five hundred a year."" ""Yes, indeed, Sir, (added Mr. Clarke,) those two malicious old women docked the intail, and left the estate to an alien.""
(pp. 7-11)",2011-07-27,16956,"","""[B]ut Tom Clarke, who seemed to have cast the eyes of affection upon the landlady's eldest daughter, Dolly, objected to their proceeding farther without rest and refreshment, as they had already travelled fifty miles since morning; and he was sure his uncle must be fatigued both in mind and body, from vexation as well as from a hard exercise, to which he had not been accustomed.""","",2011-07-27 15:28:54 UTC,"Vol. 1, Chap. 1"