work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3948,"","Searching ""mind"" in Ad Fontes's Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts",2005-07-20 00:00:00 UTC,"The Third Head in this Article, is that which is negatively expressed, That God is without Body, Parts, or Passions. In general, all these are so plainly contrary to the Ideas of Infinite Perfection, and they appear so evidently to be Imperfections, that this part of the Article will need little Explanation. We do plainly perceive that our Bodies are clogs to our Minds: And all the use that even the purest sort of Body in an Estate conceived to be glorified, can be of to a Mind, is to be an Instrument of local Motion, or to be a repository of Ideas for Memory and Imagination: But God, who is every where, and is one pure and simple Act, can have no such use for a Body. A Mind dwelling in a Body, is in many respects superior to it; yet in some [end page 54] respects is under it. We who feel how an Act of our Mind can so direct the Motions of our Body, that a thought sets our Limbs and Joints a-going, can from thence conceive, how that the whole extent of Matter, should receive such Motions as the Acts of the Supreme Mind give it: But yet not as a Body united to it, or that the Deity either needs such a Body, or can receive any trouble from it. Thus far the apprehension of the thing is very plainly made out to us. Our thoughts put some parts of our Body in a present Motion, when the Organization is regular, and all the parts are exact; and when there is no Obstruction in those Vessels or Passages through which that heat, and those Spirits do pass that cause the motion. We do in this perceive, that a thought does command matter; but our Minds are limited to our Bodies, and these do not obey them; but as they are in an exact disposition and a fitness to be so moved. Now these are plain Imperfections, but removing them from God, we can from hence apprehend that all the Matter in the Universe, may be so intirely subject to the Divine Mind, that it shall move and be whatsoever, and wheresoever he will have it to be. This is that which all men do agree in.
(pp. 54-5)",2011-08-31,10263,"","""A Mind dwelling in a Body, is in many respects superior to it; yet in some respects is under it.""",Inhabitants,2011-08-31 13:29:37 UTC,""
3948,"","Searching ""mind"" in Ad Fontes's Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts",2005-07-20 00:00:00 UTC,"All those Invisible Beings were created by God, and are not to be considered as Emanations or Rays of his Essence, which was a gross Conceit of such Philosophers as fancied that the Deity had Parts. They are Beings Created by him, and are capable of passing through various Scenes, in Bodies more or less refined: In this Life the State of our Minds receives vast Alterations from the State of our Bodies,
which ripen gradually: And after they are come to their full growth, they cannot hold in that condition long, but sink down much faster than they grew up; some Humours or Diseases discomposing the Brain, which is the Seat of the Mind so entirely, that it cannot serve it, at least so far as to Reflex Acts. So in the next State it is possible that we may at first be in a less perfect condition by reason of this,
that we may have a less perfect Body, to which we may be united between our Death, and the General Resurrection; and there may be a time in which we may receive a vast Addition and Exaltation in that State, by the raising up of our former Bodies, and the reuniting us to them, which may give us a greater compass, and a higher Elevation.
(p. 66)",,10264,"","""And after they are come to their full growth, they cannot hold in that condition long, but sink down much faster than they grew up; some Humours or Diseases discomposing the Brain, which is the Seat of the Mind so entirely, that it cannot serve it, at least so far as to Reflex Acts.""",Throne,2011-08-31 04:33:27 UTC,""
4319,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""lamp"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2006-01-19 00:00:00 UTC,"Six Times the Day with Light and Hope arose,
As oft the Night her Terrors did oppose,
While toss'd on roring Waves the tender Crew
Had nought but Death and Horror in their View:
Pale Famine, Seas, bleak Cold at equal Strife,
Conspiring all against their Bloom of Life:
Whilst like the Lamp's last Flame, their trembling Souls
Are on the Wing to leave their mortal Goals;
And Death before them stands with frightful Stare,
Their Spirits spent, and sunk down to despair.",,11256,"•I've included thrice: Lamp, Flame, Prison
","""Whilst like the Lamp's last Flame, their trembling Souls / Are on the Wing to leave their mortal Goals.""","",2010-07-01 20:36:17 UTC,""
4488,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2006-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Be taught, my Soul, with an assiduous Strife,
To manage well th' important Hours of Life.
With solemn Awe, the Ways of Truth revere,
And all thou do'st, by Wisdom's Dictates, steer.
So shall not Death, with an unfriendly Frown,
Inglorious, throw thy ruin'd Cottage down:
But, smiling, lead thee thro' the dubious Way,
And leave thee raptur'd in immortal Day.
So sings the Muse, by pious Fancy warm'd;
But, ah! how weakly is the Conduct arm'd?
We think, resolve, and make Essays to live;
Yet faster in the devious Courses drive.
Reason exerts her pure, celestial, Rays,
To guide our Steps thro' Errors weary Maze:
But upstart Passions mount her rightful Throne,
And blindly push our vanquish'd Judgment on.
Hence we, perversely, wander, in the Night,
Uncertain, when the Road, we take, is right.",,11818,"","""So shall not Death, with an unfriendly Frown, / Inglorious, throw thy ruin'd Cottage down""","",2009-09-14 19:36:17 UTC,""
6671,"","Reading John Wootton's ""Happiness and the Historian,"" in TLS",2010-01-26 20:40:05 UTC,"Paucis libris vir sapiens contentus est, et quanto sapientior, tanto pauciorum codicum est indigus. Egregie autem eruditus in scrinio pectoris libriariam circunfert.
(f. 163)",,17685,"","""Paucis libris vir sapiens contentus est, et quanto sapientior, tanto pauciorum codicum est indigus. Egregie autem eruditus in scrinio pectoris libriariam circunfert.""","",2010-01-26 20:40:05 UTC,Ethics X.7
7187,"",Reading in the British Library,2012-02-08 04:12:26 UTC,"Scholium. These Laws of the Actions of the Soul on the Body, and of the Body on the Soul, are never to be known to us, but by their Effects; as the Laws of Nature in the Actions of Bodies upon one another, were first discovered by Experiment, and afterward reduced into general Propositions. One Law of the Action of the Soul on the Body, & vice versa, seems to be, That upon such and such Motions produced in the Musical Instrument of the Body, such and such Sensations should arise in the Mind; and on such and such Actions of the Soul, such and such Motions in the Body should ensue; much like a Signal agreed to between two Generals, the one within, the other without a Citadel, which should signify to one another, what they have before agreed to, and established between them; or, like the Key of a Cypher, which readily explains the otherwise unintelligible Writing. Besides these Passions and Affections, which are involuntary.
(VI, pp. 146-7)",,19581,"","""One Law of the Action of the Soul on the Body, & vice versa, seems to be, That upon such and such Motions produced in the Musical Instrument of the Body, such and such Sensations should arise in the Mind; and on such and such Actions of the Soul, such and such Motions in the Body should ensue; much like a Signal agreed to between two Generals, the one within, the other without a Citadel, which should signify to one another, what they have before agreed to, and established between them; or, like the Key of a Cypher, which readily explains the otherwise unintelligible Writing.""","Inhabitants, Rooms, and Writing",2012-02-08 04:12:40 UTC,Chap. VI. Of the Passions
7187,"",Reading in the British Library,2012-02-08 04:58:14 UTC,"[...] And there is no doubt to be made, but the Organs of Sensation, and those the Mind uses in its intellectual Operations, may be likewise improved, strengthened and perfected by constant Use, and proper Application. And if by Excesses, and original bad Conformation, or any Accident, these Organs come to be spoiled, of by the bad state of the Juices, they be weakned in their Functions; the Medicinal and Chirurgical Arts may take place, and come in play. But if the Passions be raging and tumultuous, and constantly fuelled, nothing less that He, who has the Hearts of Men in his Hands, and forms them as a Potter does his Clay, who stills the raging Seas, and calms the Tempests of the Air, can settle and quiet such tumultuous, overbearing Hurricanes in the Mind, and Animal Oeconomy. Without such a Miracle, since the Soul and Body act mutually upon one another, and the Tabernacle of Clay is the weakest part of the Compound, it must at last be overborn and thrown down.
(p. 161)",,19586,"","""Without such a Miracle, since the Soul and Body act mutually upon one another, and the Tabernacle of Clay is the weakest part of the Compound, it must at last be overborn and thrown down.""",Rooms,2012-02-08 04:58:32 UTC,Chap. VI. Of the Passions
7546,"",Google Books,2013-07-16 15:27:54 UTC,"I say, our Author maintains that Moral Virtue is so far from allowing a Man to gratify his Appetites, that on the contrary it vigorously commands us to subdue them, and to divest ourselves of our Passions, in order to purify the Mind, as Men take out the Furniture when they would clean a Room thoroughly: For, according to him, Virtue consists wholly in Self-Denial: By which he understands Peoples combating themselves, and undergoing all imaginable Austerities, even refusing what one should think absolutely necessary to keep them alive. I am willing "" says he, to pag Adoration to Virtue wherever, I can meet with it, with a proviso that I shall not be oblig'd to admit any as such, where I can see no Self-Denial. [...]""
(p. 153)",,21783,Paraphrasing Mandeville,"""I say, our Author maintains that Moral Virtue is so far from allowing a Man to gratify his Appetites, that on the contrary it vigorously commands us to subdue them, and to divest ourselves of our Passions, in order to purify the Mind, as Men take out the Furniture when they would clean a Room thoroughly.""",Rooms,2013-07-16 15:27:54 UTC,""
7546,"",Google Books,2013-07-16 15:37:04 UTC,"I beg Leave here to admire the just Reasoning, and the Noble Zeal which some Heathen Philosophers have employ'd to perswade the World, that the Mind is a Man's self, while the Body is only, as it were, a Prison, to which we are here for a while confin'd. And, I hope my Reader, will indulge me the Pleasure of taking Notice, particularly of what Socrates observ'd upon this Point some few Hours before his Death: Which I shall give you, with little or no Variation from the English Translation of M. Dacier's French. [...]
(pp. 201-2)",,21793,"","""I beg Leave here to admire the just Reasoning, and the Noble Zeal which some Heathen Philosophers have employ'd to perswade the World, that the Mind is a Man's self, while the Body is only, as it were, a Prison, to which we are here for a while confin'd.""",Rooms,2013-07-16 15:37:04 UTC,""
4480,"",Reading at British Library,2014-06-20 19:14:23 UTC,"OR, in a more gross Similitude, the IntelligenPrinciple [sic] is like a Bell in a Steeple, to which there are an infinite Number of Hammers all around it, with Ropes of all Lengths, terminating or touching at every Point of the Surface of the Trunk or Case, one of whose Extremities being pull'd or touch'd by any Body whatsoever, conveys a measur'd and proportion'd Impulse or Stroke to the Bell, which gives the proper Sound. These, or such like Similitudes, tho' Lame and Imperfect, are all I doubt, was ever design'd for the Generality of Mankind in the Knowledge necessary towards HEALTH and LIFE, in such Matters. Those acquainted with the best Philosophy, Natural History, The Laws constantly observ'd by Bodies in their Actions on one another, and the establish'd Relations of Things, will, I hope, meet with fuller Satisfaction, if they consider the following Treatise without Prejudice or Partiality.
(p. 5)",,24069,"","""OR, in a more gross Similitude, the Intelligent Principle is like a Bell in a Steeple, to which there are an infinite Number of Hammers all around it, with Ropes of all Lengths, terminating or touching at every Point of the Surface of the Trunk or Case, one of whose Extremities being pull'd or touch'd by any Body whatsoever, conveys a measur'd and proportion'd Impulse or Stroke to the Bell, which gives the proper Sound""","",2014-06-20 19:14:23 UTC,""