work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3397,"","Reading Martin C. Battestin's ""The Problem of Amelia: Hume, Barrow, and the Conversion of Captain Booth"" ELH. 613-648: p. 633.",2006-05-24 00:00:00 UTC,"But now, should any one venture to own such an odd and absurd Paradox, in any of those sober, rational Parts of Christendom, which have depraved their judging and discerning Faculties with those strange, new-found ecstatick Notions of Religion, which some (who call themselves Christians and Christians of the highest Form too) have, in the late super-reforming Age, taken up amongst us; how unnatural, or rather indeed, how romantick would such Divinity appear? For all the World acknowledges, that Hope and Fear are the two great Handles, by which the Will of Man is to be taken Hold of, when we would either draw it to Duty, or draw it off from Sin. They are the strongest, and most efficacious Means to bring such Things home to the Will, as are principally apt to move and work upon it. And the greatest, the noblest, and most renowned Actions, that were ever achieved upon the Face of the Earth, have first moved upon the Spring of a projecting Hope, carrying the Mind above all present Discouragements, by the Prospect of some glorious and Future Good.
(Vol. II, pp. 61-2)",,8684,"Battestin cites III, 126.","""For all the World acknowledges, that Hope and Fear are the two great Handles, by which the Will of Man is to be taken Hold of, when we would either draw it to Duty, or draw it off from Sin.""","",2013-10-25 21:14:50 UTC,""
3678,"","Searching OED ""fig."" in the same section as ""mind."" Found in ""ballast, n.""",2005-11-22 00:00:00 UTC,"Having to his great Wit added the ballast of Learning.
(II, p. 100)",,9539,"•From ""ballast, n."" 3. fig. That which tends to give stability in morals or politics, to steady the mind or feelings, etc.","""Having to his great Wit added the ballast of Learning""","",2009-09-14 19:34:17 UTC,""