work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5704,Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"The subject of these anecdotes was among the too many eminent instances of this. Settled principles she had none. Not that her deficiency arose so much from viciousness, as from ignorance. Her mind, to borrow Mr. Locke's figure, was a mere tabula rasa, a blank as to every thing beyond mortality. All with her centered in self and sensation. Her ruling passion was displayed in the acquirement of any species of property, the possession of which gratified vanity. This she hoarded with the gripe of a miser, or dissipated with the profusion of a spendthrift, when flattered by knavery or artifice into a mood of extravagance. [...]
(pp. 16-7)",,15214,"•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Blank
•Elizabeth Chudleigh (c. 1720-1788): married names Elizabeth Hervey, Countess of Bristol, and Elizabeth Pierrepont, duchess of Kingston.","""Her mind, to borrow Mr. Locke's figure, was a mere tabula rasa, a blank as to every thing beyond mortality""",Writing,2014-09-01 15:16:01 UTC,""
6748,"","Contributed by PC Fleming, searching ""mind""",2010-07-15 21:00:37 UTC,"In one of her holiday vacations, ere the Iron rod of adversity had fallen on her father, Miss Goodville had frequently, before any of the family were stirring, indulged herself in morning rambles through the neighbouring villages. In one of these early excursions, her humanity had been excited by a scene of such exquisite misery that it long made an impression on her tender mind, and sowed the first seeds of benevolence in her heart. (page 45)",,17962,"","""In one of these early excursions, her humanity had been excited by a scene of such exquisite misery that it long made an impression on her tender mind, and sowed the first seeds of benevolence in her heart.""","",2010-07-15 21:00:37 UTC,"Tale V: Benevolence rewarded; Or, the History of Miss Goodville"
6748,"","Contributed by PC Fleming, searching ""mind.""",2010-07-16 21:29:35 UTC,"Those who feel in themselves the least propensity to this growing evil should carefully guard against its first approaches; for, like a gnawing vulture, it preys upon the mind; and, unless combated with all their resolution, steals imperceptibly on the disposition, and casts a veil over their fairest virtues. It not only prompts to the dimunition of the felicity they envy, but totally destroys their own; for no one can be truly happy who thinks another happier than himself; unless he possesses such disinterested ideas as to make the reflection of their happiness a source of satisfaction: and surely if we profess a friendship, the well-doing of those whom we so distinguish must be equally desirable to us as out own. But even in the earliest scenes of life we have too frequently examples to the contrary, and may observe, that in the tenderest years interest exerts its influence to the destruction of more noble principles. Whenever envy makes the slightest approaches to their hearts, I would recommend to the attention of my young readers, the following tale: (pages 66-7)",,17963,"","""Those who feel in themselves the least propensity to this growing evil should carefully guard against its first approaches; for, like a gnawing vulture, it preys upon the mind; and, unless combated with all their resolution, steals imperceptibly on the disposition, and casts a veil over their fairest virtues.""","",2010-07-16 21:30:46 UTC,"In Tale VI. The judicious Decision; or, the Test of Friendship"
7214,"","Searching ""fancy's coinage"" in Google Books",2012-04-12 19:28:48 UTC,"It is somewhat strange that this poetical Persian exile, so numerous too in his effusions, and so highly appreciated by his translator, should (in the language ot Newgate history) furnish not a tittle relative to his birth, parentage, and education. The names of Jamie, Ferdusi, Hafez, Saadi, &c. are familiar to our ear; but as for Achmed Ardebeili, we most frankly confess that we never enjoyed the honour of his acquaintance, or ever heard the sound of his name. To come a little closer to the point, we strongly suspect the fancy's coinage in this affair, and that he is, bona fide, the offspring of a Bristol brain, instead of a province of Persia. [...]
(p. 388)",2012-04-12,19685,"","""To come a little closer to the point, we strongly suspect the fancy's coinage in this affair, and that he is, bona fide, the offspring of a Bristol brain, instead of a province of Persia.""",Coinage,2012-04-12 19:46:49 UTC,""
7217,"",Searching in Google Books,2012-04-13 18:50:33 UTC,"""Godly persons,"" that is, Christian philosophers, are described, in those articles which all churchmen have most solemnly assented to, as,""such as feel in themselves the spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and drawing up their minds to high and, heavenly things."" He who feels the spirit in him, will be conscious of possessing the pearl of great price, and will lock it up in the sanctuarv of his heart, as his richest treasure, never to be despoiled of it by the seducing arts of false philosophy; never to exchange that pure gold, which is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, for the base metal of worldly politicians, who may endeavour, as they have done, to make truth itself alter her inimitable nature, to serve the varying purposes of temporary ambition. Those doctrines of Christianity, which were true under the first Charles, will be considered, notwithstanding the subtle attempts of politicians, equally true under the abandoned profligacy of a second; or in subsequent reigns, when it was discovered by the court divines, that Christianity was as old as the creation, and the religion of grace, a mere republication of the religion of nature. The substance of Christianity can survive the wreck of empires, the demolition of temples made with hands, and the dismission of a superstitious or a time-serving priesthood. The living temple of the heart, where the Holy Spirit fixes his shrine, will stand unimpaired, amidst the fallen columns of marble. The kingdom of heaven will remain unshaken, amidst all the convulsions of this changeable globe. We are told, that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it; and, though it should happen, in any country of Christendom, that the rulers should be infidels, and the visible church abolished; yet while there are human creatures left alive in it, the church of Christ may still flourish. [...]
(151)",,19688,Embroidering Knox's metaphor...,"""He who feels the spirit in him, will be conscious of possessing the pearl of great price, and will lock it up in the sanctuary of his heart, as his richest treasure, never to be despoiled of it by the seducing arts of false philosophy; never to exchange that pure gold, which is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, for the base metal of worldly politicians, who may endeavour, as they have done, to make truth itself alter her inimitable nature, to serve the varying purposes of temporary ambition.""",Coinage and Metal and Rooms,2013-06-11 19:39:22 UTC,""
7777,"","Searching in Google Books; found also in ECCO. Passage draws language from Noorthuck's Historical and Classical Dictionary (1776), vol II, entry ""Momus."" ",2013-11-16 04:19:52 UTC,"MOMUS, in fabulous history, the god of raillery, or the jester of the celestial assembly, and who ridiculed both gods and men. Being chosen by Vulcan, Neptune, and Minerva, to give his judgment concerning their works, he blamed them all: Neptune for not making his bull with horns before his eyes, in order that he might give a surer blow; Minerva for building an house that could not be removed in case of bad neighbours and Vulcan, for making a man without a window in his breast, that his treacheries might be seen. For his free reflections upon the gods, Momus was driven from heaven. He is generally represented raising a mask from his face, and holding a small figure in his hand.
(XII, p. 208)",,23221,"","""MOMUS, in fabulous history, the god of raillery, or the jester of the celestial assembly, and who ridiculed both gods and men. Being chosen by Vulcan, Neptune, and Minerva, to give his judgment concerning their works, he blamed them all: Neptune for not making his bull with horns before his eyes, in order that he might give a surer blow; Minerva for building an house that could not be removed in case of bad neighbours and Vulcan, for making a man without a window in his breast, that his treacheries might be seen.""",Rooms,2014-09-01 16:49:52 UTC,""
7943,"",Reading at the British Library,2014-06-20 19:02:27 UTC,"He must divest his mind of every care and anxiety, of every intruding thought and thing, except the person before him. His mind must be calm and placid as a summer's evening, and his body in an attitude of ease.
(pp. 5-6)",,24068,"","""His mind must be calm and placid as a summer's evening, and his body in an attitude of ease.""","",2014-06-20 19:02:27 UTC,""