text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"ASGILL
O! how he mistakes! it is in souls like mine that love rages with all his fury. The gay, the volatile, can scarcely maintain a passion; but in the serious and reflective mind, love raises a despotic throne, and, like the burning sun of Africa, he pours his chiefest ardors upon slaves.
Enter Perkins.
Perkins! how now! your looks alarm me. What news from the City?",2009-09-14 19:44:02 UTC,"In ""the serious and reflective mind, love raises a despotic throne, and, like the burning sun of Africa, he pours his chiefest ardors upon slaves""",2004-07-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Act I, scene 4","",,"","","Searching ""throne"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Drama)",15584,5852
"Told me too, like one who knew him,
(Can such love as this be true?)
How he dy'd for them that slew him.
Died for wretched Yamba too.
Freely he his mercy proffer'd,
And to Sinners he was sent;
E'en to Massa pardon's offer'd;
O if Massa would repent!
Wicked deed full many a time
Sinful Yamba too hath done;
But she wails to God her crime;
But she trusts his only Son.
O ye slaves whom Massa beat,
Ye are stained with guilt within
As ye hope for mercy sweet
So forgive your Massas' Sin.
And with grief when sinking low,
Mark the Road that Yamba trod;
Think how all her pain and woe
Brought the Captive home to God. ",2011-06-17 19:20:50 UTC,"""O ye slaves whom Massa beat, / Ye are stained with guilt within / As ye hope for mercy sweet / So forgive your Massas' Sin.""",2011-06-17 19:20:50 UTC,"","",,"","Truly disgusting evangelical sentiment: depraved slaves must figure ""massas.""",Reading,18726,6948
"IBRAHIM
Yes, she has a thousand charms, and my heart is already in her chains.--How dared Mustapha deceive me? He talked of deformity--her form is symmetry itself, and her hair which he decried, is fit for the bow-strings of the god of love.
(III.i)
",2011-07-28 19:36:02 UTC,"""Yes, she has a thousand charms, and my heart is already in her chains.""",2011-07-28 19:36:02 UTC,"Act III, scene i","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",19043,7043
"IBRAHIM
O thou enchantress!
[Starting back]
Thou wife of Orloff! thou hast my soul in chains--drag it not to perdition!
(V.v)",2011-07-30 20:52:30 UTC,"""Thou wife of Orloff! thou hast my soul in chains--drag it not to perdition!""",2011-07-30 20:52:30 UTC,"Act V, scene v","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",19074,7043
"IBRAHIM
Christian, thou know'st me not! Whilst left to myself, I could command myself! My ardent passions I could hold in chains, and suppress that love which honor could not sanction--But thou shalt know when thus oppos'd, I own no law but will--drag him away.
(V.v)",2011-08-01 19:45:06 UTC,"""My ardent passions I could hold in chains, and suppress that love which honor could not sanction.""",2011-08-01 19:45:06 UTC,"Act V, scene v","",,Fetters,"","Searching ""passion"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Drama)",19080,7043
"But though these effects of human depravity are every where acknowledged and lamented, we must not expect to find them traced to their true origin.
Causa latet, vis est notissima.
Prepare yourself to hear rather of frailty and infirmity, of petty transgressions, of occasional failings, of sudden surprisals, and of such other qualifying terms as may serve to keep out of view the true source of the evil, and, without shocking the understanding, may administer consolation to the pride of human nature. The bulk of professed Christians are used to speak of man as of a being, who, naturally pure, and inclined to all virtue, is sometimes, almost involuntarily, drawn out of the right course, or is overpowered by the violence of temptation. Vice with them is rather an accidental and temporary, than a constitutional and habitual distemper; a noxious plant, which, though found to live and even to thrive in the human mind, is not the natural growth and production of the soil.
(p. 28)",2011-08-30 20:10:03 UTC,"""Vice with them is rather an accidental and temporary, than a constitutional and habitual distemper; a noxious plant, which, though found to live and even to thrive in the human mind, is not the natural growth and production of the soil.""",2011-08-30 19:53:37 UTC,Chapter II,"",,"","",Searching in Google Books,19105,7075
"We learn from the Scriptures that it is one main part of the operations of the Holy Spirit, to implant those heavenly principles in the human mind, and to cherish their growth. We are encouraged to believe that in answer to our prayers, this aid from above will give efficacy to our earnest endeavours, if used in humble dependence on divine grace. We may therefore with confidence take the means which have been suggested. But let us, in our turn, be permitted to ask. our opponents, have they humbly and perseveringly applied for this divine strength? or disclaiming that assistance, perhaps as tempting them to indolence, have they been so much the more strenuous and unwearied in the use of their own unaided endeavours? or rather have they not been equally negligent of both? Renouncing the one, they have wholly omitted the other. But this is far from being all. They even reverse all the methods which we have recommended as being calculated to increase regard; and exactly follow that course which would be pursued by any one who should wish to reduce an excessive affection. Yet thus leaving untried all the means, which, whether from Reason or Scripture, we maintain to be necessary to the production of the end, nay using such as are of a directly opposite nature, these men presume to talk to us of impossibilities! We may rather contend that they furnish a fresh proof of the soundness of our reasonings. We lay it down as a fundamental position, that speculative knowledge alone, mere superficial cursory considerations, will be of no avail. Nothing is to be done without the diligent continued use of the appointed method. They themselves afford an instance of the truth of our assertions; and while they supply no argument against the efficacy of the mode prescribed, they acknowledge at least that they are wholly ignorant of any other.
(pp. 116-7)",2011-08-30 19:54:54 UTC,"""We learn from the Scriptures that it is one main part of the operations of the Holy Spirit, to implant those heavenly principles in the human mind, and to cherish their growth.""",2011-08-30 19:54:54 UTC,Chapter III,"",,"","","Searching ""mind"" in Google Books",19106,7075
"We cannot dive into the human heart, and therefore should always speak with caution and diffidence, when from external appearances or declarations we are affirming the existence of any internal principles and feelings; especially as we are liable to be misled by the ambiguities of language, or by the inaccuracy with which others may express themselves. But it is sometimes not difficult to any one who is accustomed, if the phrase may be allowed, to the anatomy of the human mind, to discern, that generally speaking, the persons who use the above language, rely not so much on the merits of Christ, and on the agency of Divine Grace, as on their own power of fulfilling the moderated requisitions of Divine Justice. He will hence therefore discover in them a disposition rather to extenuate the malignity of their disease, than to magnify the excellence of the proffered remedy. He will find them apt to palliate in themselves what they cannot fully justify, to enhance the merit of what they believe to be their good qualities and commendable actions, to set as it were in an account the good against the bad; and if the result be not very unfavourable, they conceive that they shall be entitled to claim the benefits of our Saviour's sufferings as a thing of course. They have little idea, so little, that it might almost be affirmed that they have no idea at all, of the importance or difficulty of the duty of what the Scripture calls ""submitting ourselves to the righteousness of God;"" or of our proneness rather to justify ourselves in his sight, than in the language of imploring penitents to acknowledge, ourselves guilty and helpless sinners. They have never summoned themselves to this entire and unqualified renunciation of their own merits, and their own strength; and therefore they remain strangers to the natural loftiness of the human heart, which such a call would have awakened into action, and roused to resistance. ALL THESE THEIR SEVERAL ERRORS NATURALLY RESULT FROM THE MISTAKEN CONCEPTION ENTERTAINED OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY. They consider not that Christianity is a scheme for ""justifying the ungodly*,"" by Christ's dying for them ""when
yet sinners†(a):"" a scheme for reconciling us to God--when enemies;"" and for making the fruits of holiness the effects‡, not the cause, of our being justified and reconciled: that, in short, it opens freely the door of mercy, to the greatest and best of penitent sinners; who obeying the blessed impulse of the grace of God, whereby they had been awakened from the sleep of death, and moved to seek for pardon, may enter in, and through the regenerating influence of the Holy Spirit be enabled to bring forth the fruits of Righteousness. [...]
(pp. 126-9)",2011-08-30 20:00:34 UTC,"""But it is sometimes not difficult to any one who is accustomed, if the phrase may be allowed, to the anatomy of the human mind, to discern, that generally speaking, the persons who use the above language, rely not so much on the merits of Christ, and on the agency of Divine Grace, as on their own power of fulfilling the moderated requisitions of Divine Justice.""",2011-08-30 20:00:34 UTC,Chapter III,"",,"",Meta-Metaphorical.,"Searching ""mind"" in Google Books",19107,7075
"How solicitously do we inquire after him, how tenderly do we visit him, how much perhaps do we regret that he has not better advice, how apt are we to prescribe for him, and how should we reproach ourselves, if we were to neglect any means in our power of contributing to his recovery! But ""the mind diseased"" is neglected and forgotten--""that is not our affair; we hope (we do not perhaps really believe) that here it is well with him."" The truth is, we have no solicitude about his spiritual interest. Here he is treated like the unfortunate traveller in the Gospel; we look, upon him; we fee but too well his fad condition, but (Priest and Levite alike) we pass by on the other side, and leave him to the officious tenderness of some poor despised Samaritan.
(p. 189)",2011-08-30 20:02:20 UTC,"""But 'the mind diseased' is neglected and forgotten.""",2011-08-30 20:02:20 UTC,Chapter IV,"",,"","","Searching ""mind"" in Google Books",19108,7075
"I believe, Sir, I have now touched upon all the objections of any consequence, which are made to the abolition of this Trade.--When we consider the vastness of the Continent of Africa; when we reflect how all other countries have for some centuries past, been advancing in happiness and civilization; when we think how in this same period all improvement in Africa has been defeated by her intercourse with Britain; when we reflect how it is we ourselves that have degraded them to that wretched brutishness and barbarity which we now plead as the justification of our guilt; how the Slave Trade has enslaved their minds, blackened their character and sunk them so low in the scale of animal beings, that some think the very apes are of a higher class, and fancy the Ourang Outang has given them the go-by.--What a mortification must we feel at having so long neglected to think of our guilt, or to attempt any reparation: It seems, indeed, as if we had determined to forbear from all interference until the measure of our folly and wickedness was so full and complete; until the impolicy which eventually belongs to vice, was become so plain and glaring, that not an individual in the country would refuse to join in the abolition: It seems as if we had waited until the persons most interested should be tired out with the folly and nefariouness of the trade, and should unite in petitioning against it.
(47-8) ",2013-03-09 15:42:22 UTC,"""[T]he Slave Trade has enslaved their [Africans'] minds, blackened their character and sunk them so low in the scale of animal beings, that some think the very apes are of a higher class, and fancy the Ourang Outang has given them the go-by.""",2013-03-09 15:42:22 UTC,"","",,Fetters,"",Reading,19970,7332