work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3583,"",Past Masters,2003-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,"Lastly, we should note that in subjects which are composed of several substances, one such substance often stands out; and we view this substance in such a way that any of the other substances which we associate with it are nothing but modes of it. Thus a man who is dressed can be regarded as a compound of a man and clothes. But with respect to the man, his being dressed is merely a mode, although clothes are substances. In the same way, in the case of a man, who is composed of a soul and a body, our author might be regarding the body as the principal element, in relation to which having a soul or the possession of thought is nothing but a mode. But it is absurd to infer from this that the soul itself, or that in virtue of which the body thinks, is not a substance distinct from the body.
(p. 299)",2008-12-03,9272,"•Written in Latin and published early in 1648. Response to broadsheet published anonymously by Henri de Roy (1598-1679) towards the end of 1647.
•Clothing: Cf. Swift's Tale of a Tub
• INTEREST. USE in entry on dress. Mode and Man of the mode...","""Thus a man who is dressed can be regarded as a compound of a man and clothes. But with respect to the man, his being dressed is merely a mode, although clothes are substances. In the same way, in the case of a man, who is composed of a soul and a body, our author might be regarding the body as the principal element, in relation to which having a soul or the possession of thought is nothing but a mode.""","",2009-09-14 19:34:05 UTC,"Descartes showing that author has taken ""a man to be simply a body, of which the man's mind is a mode"" (299)"
3585,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""line"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-11 00:00:00 UTC,"""A Prince that in the Cedars top doth build,
""And scornes the Sun, and dallies with the Wind,
""Only a Title hath his care to gild,
""His gay robe's lined with a restlesse mind.
""They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
""And falling from on high, the more they break them.",2008-12-03,9274,"","""His gay robe's lined with a restlesse mind""","",2009-09-14 19:34:05 UTC,""
7137,"","Searching ""imperium"" in EEBO",2012-03-29 18:06:35 UTC,"10. Not that the Plastick virtue, awakened by the Imperium of her Will, shall renew all the lineaments it did in this Earthly Body (for abundance of them are useless and to no purpose, which therefore, Providence so ordaining, will be silent in this aiery figuration, and onely such operate as are fit for this separate state; and such are those as are requisite to perfect the visible feature of a Person, giving him all parts of either ornament or use for the pleasure of rational converse;) nor that this Efformative power does determine the whole appearance alone (for these aerial Spirits appear variously clad, some like beautiful Virgins, others like valiant Warriours with their Helmets and Plumes of feathers, as Philostratus would make us believe Achilles did to Apollonius:) But there is a mixt action and effect, resulting partly from the freeness of the Will and Imagination, and partly from the natural propension of the Plastick virtue, to cast the Vehicle into such a personal shape.
(III.v.10, p. 385)",,19657,"","""Not that the Plastick virtue, awakened by the Imperium of her Will, shall renew all the lineaments it did in this Earthly Body (for abundance of them are useless and to no purpose, which therefore, Providence so ordaining, will be silent in this aiery figuration, and onely such operate as are fit for this separate state.""",Empire,2012-03-29 18:13:15 UTC,"Book III, Chapter v"