work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7128,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-11-23 03:37:46 UTC,"Never make a Friend on a sudden, for though the first Affection makes the deepest Impression, yet that Love is held most permanent which dives into the Soul by soft Degrees of mutual Society, and comes to be matured by Time.
(52)",,19329,"","""Never make a Friend on a sudden, for though the first Affection makes the deepest Impression, yet that Love is held most permanent which dives into the Soul by soft Degrees of mutual Society, and comes to be matured by Time.""","",2011-11-23 03:37:46 UTC,Of Friendship
7307,Blank Slate,"Reading Christopher Flint's The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge UP, 2011), 81.",2012-07-29 17:02:57 UTC,"The situation of the places of our birth, the climate and temperature of the air, the circumstances of our parents, their humours and dispositions; but more especially their method of treating us in our infant years, I am persuaded give bias to our manners and actions, through the whole course of our lives. Our minds are like blank paper, as a great philosopher has observed, and the first impressions they receive are generally the most permanent and powerful. What is commonly and vulgarly called our natural temper is only what we acquire, after our births, from the example of those from whom we receive our institution, or upon whom we depend. And agreeable to this, the mild conduct of my parents, and the engaging tenderness of their behaviour to every body, certainly fixed that good humour and complacency in my soul, that no succeeding misfortune had ever the power to efface. My disposition, as the reader will have frequent occasion to observe, was serious, but not unpliant, was gentle, but not slavish. My countenance was open, and my spirit intrepid. But as my designs were not lost in the clouds of gaiety, so neither did they render my vain, conceited, and pedantic. [...]
(I.ii, p. 9-10)",,19906,"","""Our minds are like blank paper, as a great philosopher has observed, and the first impressions they receive are generally the most permanent and powerful.""",Writing,2012-07-29 17:17:46 UTC,"Volume I, Chapter ii"
5519,"",Reading,2014-09-01 16:21:27 UTC,"The mind of man has been by some authors called a tabula rasa, and compared to a sheet of clean paper. But this principle, however generally received, may perhaps admit of some hesitation; especially if it should be found less salutary in its consequences than could be wished. One should imagine, that the human intellect, by its original constitution, easily admits and retains some impressions, as congenial to its nature, and faithful to their objects; whilst it repels others with aversion or disdain, as subversive of its happiness, and false to the things which they represent. Hence our frame, from its very origin, seems marked by the hand of nature with indubitable signatures of pre-eminence and distinction. Hence man assumes the important characters of a rational being and a moral agent. Hence his desires of happiness and truth are insatiable, and his capacities of enjoying them indefinite.
(Preface)",,24421,"","""One should imagine, that the human intellect, by its original constitution, easily admits and retains some impressions, as congenial to its nature, and faithful to their objects; whilst it repels others with aversion or disdain, as subversive of its happiness, and false to the things which they represent.""",Impressions,2014-09-01 16:21:27 UTC,""