work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5088,"",Searching HDIS (Prose),2005-03-11 00:00:00 UTC,"To conceive this right,--call for pen and ink--here's paper ready to your hand. --Sit down, Sir, paint her to your own mind--as like your mistress as you can--as unlike your wife as your conscience will let you--'tis all one to me--please but your own fancy in it.",2008-10-07,13737,"","""To conceive this right,--call for pen and ink--here's paper ready to your hand. --Sit down, Sir, paint her to your own mind""","",2009-09-14 19:39:06 UTC,"Vol. 6, Chap. 38"
5127,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-03-08 00:00:00 UTC," Remember Lot's wife.
--xvii. 32.
Engrave her doom upon my heart,
That I may never wish to part,
(So apt to tempt my loving God,
To stop, and linger on the road,)
That I may never more draw back,
Saviour, into Thy bosom take,
And make this dear-bought soul of mine
A monument of grace Divine.
",,13840,"•This from Luke, Chapt XVII.","""[M]ake this dear-bought soul of mine / A monument of grace Divine""","",2009-09-14 19:39:20 UTC,I've included the entire poem
5229,"",Reading,2005-06-01 00:00:00 UTC,"THEO.
The mind is capable not merely of knowing them, but also of finding them within itself. If all it had was the mere capacity to receive those items of knowledge--a passive power to do so, as indeterminate as the power of wax to receive shapes or of a blank page to receive words--it would not be the source of necessary truths, as I have just shown that it is. For it cannot be denied that the senses are inadequate to show their necessity, and that therefore the mind has a disposition (as much active as passive) to draw them from its own depths; thoughthe senses are necessary to give the mind the opportunity and the attention for this, and to direct it towards certain necessary truths rather than others. So you see, sir, that these people who hold a different view, able though they are, have apparently failed to think through the implications of the distinction between necessary or eternal truths and truths of experience. I said this before, and our entire debate confirms it. The fundamental proof of necessary truths comes from the understanding alone, and other truths come from experience fo from observations of the senses. Our mind is capable of knowing truths of both sorts, but it is the source of the former; and however often one experienced instances of universal truth, one could never know inductively that it would always hold unless one knew through reason that it was necessary.
(pp. 79-80)",,14081,"•I.i.5. Whether there are Innate Principles
I've included twice: Wax and Blank Page","""If all [the mind] had was the mere capacity to receive those items of knowledge--a passive power to do so, as indeterminate as the power of wax to receive shapes or of a blank page to receive words--it would not be the source of necessary truths""",Impression,2013-10-13 19:00:07 UTC,""
6499,"",Brought to my notice by Patrick Abatiell,2009-03-16 00:00:00 UTC,"
SATURDAY 26 FEBRUARY. Last night Dempster came to me between ten and eleven and sat till one. He is really a most agreeable man: has fine sense, sweet dispositions, and the true manners of a gentleman. His sceptical notions give him a freedom and ease which in a companion is very pleasing, although to a man whose mind is possessed with serious thoughts of futurity, it is rather hurting to find them considered so lightly. He said he intended to write a treatise on the causes of happiness and misery. He considered the mind of man like a room, which is either made agreeable or the reverse by the pictures with which it is adorned. External circumstances are nothing to the purpose. Our great point is to have pleasing pictures in the inside. To illustrate this: we behold a man of quality in all the affluence of life. We are apt to imagined this man happy. We are apt to imagine that his gallery is hung with the most delightful paintings. But could we look into it, we should in all probability behold portraits of care, discontent, envy, languor, and distraction. When we see a beggar, how miserable do we think him! But let us examine his pictures. We will probably find merriment, hope, a keen stomach, a hearty meal, true friendship, the newspaper, and a pot of porter. The great art is to have an agreeable collection adn to preserve them well.
This is really an ingenious and lively fancy. We gave some examples. Lord Elibank has just a cabinet of curiosities, which are well ranged and of which he has an exact catalogue. Macpherson has some bold portraits and wild landscapes. Lord Eglinton has had a variety of pieces, but they have been mostly slightly painted and are fading, so that his most frequent picture is Regret. The [End Page 203] mind of a young man (his gallery I mean) is often furnished different ways. According to the scenes he is placed in, so are his pictures. They disappear, and he gets a new set in a moment. But as he grows up, he gets some substantial pieces which he always preserves, although he may alter his smaller paintings in a moment. I said that he whose pictures shifted too often, like the glaiks, was too light-headed, and so in Scotland, he is called glaiked, an expression perfectly of a piece with his system. (pp. 203-4)
",,17294,"REVIST. INTEREST. USE. FASCINATING metaphor worked out in two paragraphs. Reminiscent of Crambe's theory? I've included thrice: Room, Pictures, Cabinet ","""He considered the mind of man like a room, which is either made agreeable or the reverse by the pictures with which it is adorned.""",Rooms,2011-03-24 19:55:25 UTC,February 7176,"",Reading in ECCO,2012-01-24 17:48:09 UTC,"Before you proceed further, says the Countess of Twylight, you should, I think, explain to the company what is meant by the term idea. That, I apprehend, is sufficiently explained by what was said about the looking glass, says the Philosopher; but if your ladyship requires another definition, you shall have it. By an idea, then, I mean that image or picture which is formed in the mind, of any thing which we have seen, or even heard talk of; for the mind is so adroit and ready at this kind of painting, that a town, for instance, is no sooner mentioned, but the imagination shapes it into form, and presents it to the memory. None of this company, I presume, have ever seen Dresden; yet there is not one, perhaps, but has formed, or conceived in his mind, some idea or picture of that city. [...]