work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7846,"",ECCO-TCP,2014-03-12 21:02:32 UTC,"WHat a great deal of Work have those People behind-hand, who do not begin to instruct and restrain their Children till they are too big for Correction! Folly that is bound up in the Heart of a Child, says Solomon, is driven thence by the Rod of Correction: But when it remains in the Child, and neither the Rod of Correction, or the Voice of Instruction is made use of to drive it out, till the Child grows up to be a Man, it is very hard, nay impossible, but by a supernatural Assistance, to drive it out at all. What this Folly is, needs no Description here, other than an allow'd Custom in doing Evil, a natural Propensity we all have to Evil; with this we are all born into the World, the Soul is originally bent to Folly; this Bent or Inclination must be rectified, or driven out either by Instruction, or if that proves insufficient, by Correction; and it is to be done while the Person is young, while he is a Child, and then IT MAY be done. The Child may be wrought upon; Nature like some Vegetables, is malleable when taken green and early; but hard and brittle when condens'd by Time and Age; at first it bows and bends to Instruction and Reproof, but afterwards obstinately refuses both.
(I, pp. 67-8)",,23679,"","""The Child may be wrought upon; Nature like some Vegetables, is malleable when taken green and early; but hard and brittle when condens'd by Time and Age; at first it bows and bends to Instruction and Reproof, but afterwards obstinately refuses both.""","",2014-03-12 21:04:13 UTC,""
7846,"",ECCO-TCP,2014-03-12 21:13:46 UTC,"(1) For their Encouragement, the Examples of the easiness and advantages of early Instruction will be seen: How soft! how pliable the Minds of little Children are! how like Wax they lie, ready to be moulded into any Form, and receive any Impression, that the diligent Application of Parents thinks fit to make upon them! From whence also Parents are warned to be very careful, that by their Example or Negligence, those first softned Circumstances of their Childrens Minds are not pass'd over without suitable Applications, to forming them a right, filling them with Learning and Knowledge, and with just Principles, both religious and moral; above all, that they receive no bad Impressions from the Practice of their Parents, whose Example, especially in Evil, takes such deep Root in their Children, that nothing is more difficult to remove.
(pp. 69)",,23683,"","""From whence also Parents are warned to be very careful, that by their Example or Negligence, those first softned Circumstances of their Childrens Minds are not pass'd over without suitable Applications, to forming them a right, filling them with Learning and Knowledge, and with just Principles, both religious and moral; above all, that they receive no bad Impressions from the Practice of their Parents, whose Example, especially in Evil, takes such deep Root in their Children, that nothing is more difficult to remove.""",Impressions,2014-03-12 21:13:46 UTC,""
8209,"",Reading,2017-03-09 04:33:16 UTC,"It is not so much the being exempt from Faults, as the having overcome them, that is an Advantage to us; it being with the Follies of the Mind as with the Weeds of a Field, which, if destroyed and consumed upon the place of their Birth, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.
(4)",,25042,"","""It is not so much the being exempt from Faults, as the having overcome them, that is an Advantage to us; it being with the Follies of the Mind as with the Weeds of a Field, which, if destroyed and consumed upon the place of their Birth, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.""","",2017-03-09 04:33:16 UTC,""
8209,"",Reading,2017-03-09 04:38:22 UTC,"We should manage our Thoughts in composing a Poem, as Shepherds do their Flowers in making a Garland; first select the Choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, where they give a Lusture to each other: Like the Feathers in Indian Crowns, which are so managed that every one reflects a part of its colour and gloss on the next.
(10)",,25048,"","""We should manage our Thoughts in composing a Poem, as Shepherds do their Flowers in making a Garland; first select the Choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, where they give a Lusture to each other: Like the Feathers in Indian Crowns, which are so managed that every one reflects a part of its colour and gloss on the next.""","",2017-03-09 04:38:22 UTC,""