theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
Blank Slate,"""The Mind of Man is allowed to be a Rasa Tabula, which in the Old Account of things, alludes to those Tablets of Wax, on which the Ancients wrote and engross'd all their Business; But in a Modern Translation, this can signify nothing else, but a fair Sheet of Paper: over which we must suppose there are Swarms and Clusters of Letters, Vowels, and Consonants, the Elements and Atoms of Literature, continually playing and hovering (for this System is like that of the Origin of the World, Man being in himself a Perfect Microcosm) and upon a certain time, when these volatile Intelligences are in the mind of it, they settle and coagulate: and by degrees form themselves into first Principles and Postulata, and so into Consequences and Corollaries, and thence gradually into Notions, Systems, and Hypotheses; And this is the Rise, Progress, and Perfection of Human Understanding, so far as that Understanding appears to the World, under the Artificial Notions of Printing and Publishing.""",4162,Writing,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",10733,2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,2012-08-01 18:10:10 UTC,,"•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa, Paper--REVISIT, have I?","The Mind of Man is allowed to be a Rasa Tabula, which in the Old Account of things, alludes to those Tablets of Wax, on which the Ancients wrote and engross'd all their Business; But in a Modern Translation, this can signify nothing else, but a fair Sheet of Paper: over which we must suppose there are Swarms and Clusters of Letters, Vowels, and Consonants, the Elements and Atoms of Literature, continually playing and hovering for this System is like that of the Origin of the World, Man being in himself a Perfect Microcosm) and upon a certain time, when these volatile Intelligences are in the mind of it, they settle and coagulate: and by degrees form themselves into first Principles and Postulata, and so into Consequences and Corollaries, and thence gradually into Notions, Systems, and Hypotheses; And this is the Rise, Progress, and Perfection of Human Understanding, so far as that Understanding appears to the World, under the Artificial Notions of Printing and Publishing. From this Account it is plain, that the Desire of Being in Print, is an Idea, if not Innate, yet one of the first that gets into our Minds: whence all Men express a Natural Propensity and Inclination, to be Authors; And this may be easily traced in the Progress that Rational Beings make towards Knowledge and Wisdom [...]
(III, Preface)",Preface
Innate Ideas,"""From this Account it is plain, that the Desire of Being in Print, is an Idea, if not Unnate, yet one of the first that gets into our Minds: whence all Men express a Natural Propensity and Inclination, to be Authors""",4162,Writing,Searching in ECCO,10734,2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:35:14 UTC,,"•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa, Paper","The Mind of Man is allowed to be a Rasa Tabula, which in the Old Account of things, alludes to those Tablets of Wax, on which the Ancients wrote and engros'd all their Business; But in a Modern Translation, this can signify nothing else, but a fair Sheet of Paper: over which we must suppose there are Swarms and Clusters of Letters, Vowels, and Consonants, the Elements and Atoms of Literature, continually playing and hovering (for this System is like that of the Origin of the World, Man being in himself a Perfect Microcosm) and upon a certain time, when these volatile Intelligences are in the mind of it, they settle and coagulate: and by degrees form themselves into first Principles and Postulata, and so into Consequences and Corollaries, and thence gradually into Notions, Systems, and Hypotheses; And this is the Rise, Progress, and Perfection of Human Understanding, so far as that Understanding appears to the World, under the Artificial Notions of Printing and Publishing.
From this Account it is plain, that the Desire of Being in Print, is an Idea, if not Unnate, yet one of the first that gets into our Minds: whence all Men express a Natural Propensity and Inclination, to be Authors; And this may be easily traced in the Progress that Rational Beings make towards Knowledge and Wisdom [...]",Preface
Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy,"""In the First place, he undertakes to say, That the Doctor went a Rasa Tabula to the University; And then adds, he believed that all Human and Divine Knowledge as to be had there.""",4162,Writing,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",10735,2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:35:14 UTC,,"","In the First place, he undertakes to say, That the Doctor went a Rasa Tabula to the University; And then adds, he believed that all Human and Divine Knowledge as to be had there; Now Human Knowledge was to be had there; Now Human Knowledge and Divine Knowledge, are very General and Comprehensive Ideas: and where these are lodged in the Mind of a Child, it is impossible that Child should be a Rasa Tabula; Indeed a Rasa Tabula of about Fourteen or Fifteen Years old, ought by all means to be sent up in all hast to the University, and might I make no doubt be immediately Matriculated at the Labritory, without paying any Fees. Mr. Lock has not been pleased to Date the Age and Duration of this sort of Creatures: Neither does he assure us, whither the First Notion engraved on the Mental Surface, be a Rawhead, a Spoon, Pap, Thunder, of an Old Woman; There are Questionless, some [end page 7] Accidents and Disasters waiting round a Cradle, as also a Testacious and Impenitrable Species of Skulls, peculiar to some Constitutions, that may for a long time secure the well temper'd Brain from a too forward and hasty Impression; but whither this is commonly the Case of those who are thought proper to be sent to the University, is I think not yet agreed upon by Philosophers; Certain it is, that there is all the Reason in the World to believe, that the Doctor was in quite other Circumstances upon his Removal from one Nursery to t'other; For my own part (and I love to measure the Excellency of others by my own Imperfections) long before I arrived at Oxford, I was so often Complemented with the worthy Titles of, Idle Rogue, Arch Bastard, Unlucky Dog, and sometimes Rebel, Truant, and Sawcebox, among the Tory Criticks: that I soon found I was no Rasa Tabula; I see it in his Looks, says one, I read it in his Face, says another; Now they must be strange Readers indeed, who can see and peruse, where there's nothing written or inscribed; Whither the Doctor did not exceed me in Literature, has been abundantly made out to the World; and till I am satisfied that he never pulled Geese, Thumb'd a Primmer, Tore a Bible, disputed with his Dad about the Rights of Nature, or Tipp'd all Nine out of a Republican Principle, without any regard to the Middle Pinn, I must believe in Charity to the Doctor, that he went a Tabula Inscripta to the University, and that this was discernible even on the Reverse of him, in very plain [end page 8] and legible Characters. What this Author says, does by no means take off from the Calumny: that he as a Rasa Tabula, educated in the Country: for tho' it be highly Reasonable that every Rasa Tabula should be well Educated, yet even a Country Education is not to be despised; I have known a Square Rasa Tabula of a Stone under the Education of a Country Cutter, speak sense enough to entitle it to a Place in a Church-yard: and therefore I see no Reason, why a Human Rasa Tabula, with a Country Education, should not deserve a Place in a Church and make a very good Catholick. I would have this Gentleman, the Defender, handsomly fall back into the primitive natural State of an uneducated Rasa Tabula, rather than be blotted over with such a senseless Inscription; A Blank Page exceeds a Treatise, that passes such Scurrilities as thses upon a Learned Doctor, for Wit and Reflection; A Rasa Tabula of a clean Sheet of Paper, has proved a Compliment to a certain Lord, when it was cry'd about as one of his Speeches, and it might have made as good a Treatise for the Defender.
(pp. 7-9)",Of Dr. W. Tind--
Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy,"""Now Human Knowledge and Divine Knowledge, are very General and Comprehensive Ideas: and where these are lodged in the Mind of a Child, it is impossible that Child should be a Rasa Tabula; Indeed a Rasa Tabula of about Fourteen or Fifteen Years old, ought by all means to be sent up in all hast to the University, and might I make no doubt be immediately Matriculated at the Labritory, without paying any Fees.""",4162,Writing,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",10736,2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:35:14 UTC,,•Taking the metaphor literally? Or showing how two senses conflict? INTEREST.,"In the First place, he undertakes to say, That the Doctor went a Rasa Tabula to the University; And then adds, he believed that all Human and Divine Knowledge as to be had there; Now Human Knowledge was to be had there; Now Human Knowledge and Divine Knowledge, are very General and Comprehensive Ideas: and where these are lodged in the Mind of a Child, it is impossible that Child should be a Rasa Tabula; Indeed a Rasa Tabula of about Fourteen or Fifteen Years old, ought by all means to be sent up in all hast to the University, and might I make no doubt be immediately Matriculated at the Labritory, without paying any Fees. Mr. Lock has not been pleased to Date the Age and Duration of this sort of Creatures: Neither does he assure us, whither the First Notion engraved on the Mental Surface, be a Rawhead, a Spoon, Pap, Thunder, of an Old Woman; There are Questionless, some [end page 7] Accidents and Disasters waiting round a Cradle, as also a Testacious and Impenitrable Species of Skulls, peculiar to some Constitutions, that may for a long time secure the well temper'd Brain from a too forward and hasty Impression; but whither this is commonly the Case of those who are thought proper to be sent to the University, is I think not yet agreed upon by Philosophers; Certain it is, that there is all the Reason in the World to believe, that the Doctor was in quite other Circumstances upon his Removal from one Nursery to t'other; For my own part (and I love to measure the Excellency of others by my own Imperfections) long before I arrived at Oxford, I was so often Complemented with the worthy Titles of, Idle Rogue, Arch Bastard, Unlucky Dog, and sometimes Rebel, Truant, and Sawcebox, among the Tory Criticks: that I soon found I was no Rasa Tabula; I see it in his Looks, says one, I read it in his Face, says another; Now they must be strange Readers indeed, who can see and peruse, where there's nothing written or inscribed; Whither the Doctor did not exceed me in Literature, has been abundantly made out to the World; and till I am satisfied that he never pulled Geese, Thumb'd a Primmer, Tore a Bible, disputed with his Dad about the Rights of Nature, or Tipp'd all Nine out of a Republican Principle, without any regard to the Middle Pinn, I must believe in Charity to the Doctor, that he went a Tabula Inscripta to the University, and that this was discernible even on the Reverse of him, in very plain [end page 8] and legible Characters. What this Author says, does by no means take off from the Calumny: that he as a Rasa Tabula, educated in the Country: for tho' it be highly Reasonable that every Rasa Tabula should be well Educated, yet even a Country Education is not to be despised; I have known a Square Rasa Tabula of a Stone under the Education of a Country Cutter, speak sense enough to entitle it to a Place in a Church-yard: and therefore I see no Reason, why a Human Rasa Tabula, with a Country Education, should not deserve a Place in a Church and make a very good Catholick. I would have this Gentleman, the Defender, handsomly fall back into the primitive natural State of an uneducated Rasa Tabula, rather than be blotted over with such a senseless Inscription; A Blank Page exceeds a Treatise, that passes such Scurrilities as thses upon a Learned Doctor, for Wit and Reflection; A Rasa Tabula of a clean Sheet of Paper, has proved a Compliment to a certain Lord, when it was cry'd about as one of his Speeches, and it might have made as good a Treatise for the Defender.
(pp. 7-9)",Of Dr. W. Tind--
"","""[T]ill I am satisfied that he never pulled Geese, Thumb'd a Primmer, Tore a Bible, disputed with his Dad about the Rights of Nature, or Tipp'd all Nine out of a Republican Principle, without any regard to the Middle Pinn, I must believe in Charity to the Doctor, that he went a Tabula Inscripta to the University, and that this was discernible even on the Reverse of him, in very plain [end page 8] and legible Characters""",4162,Writing,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",10737,2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:35:14 UTC,,•A Tabula Inscripta.,"In the First place, he undertakes to say, That the Doctor went a Rasa Tabula to the University; And then adds, he believed that all Human and Divine Knowledge as to be had there; Now Human Knowledge was to be had there; Now Human Knowledge and Divine Knowledge, are very General and Comprehensive Ideas: and where these are lodged in the Mind of a Child, it is impossible that Child should be a Rasa Tabula; Indeed a Rasa Tabula of about Fourteen or Fifteen Years old, ought by all means to be sent up in all hast to the University, and might I make no doubt be immediately Matriculated at the Labritory, without paying any Fees. Mr. Lock has not been pleased to Date the Age and Duration of this sort of Creatures: Neither does he assure us, whither the First Notion engraved on the Mental Surface, be a Rawhead, a Spoon, Pap, Thunder, of an Old Woman; There are Questionless, some [end page 7] Accidents and Disasters waiting round a Cradle, as also a Testacious and Impenitrable Species of Skulls, peculiar to some Constitutions, that may for a long time secure the well temper'd Brain from a too forward and hasty Impression; but whither this is commonly the Case of those who are thought proper to be sent to the University, is I think not yet agreed upon by Philosophers; Certain it is, that there is all the Reason in the World to believe, that the Doctor was in quite other Circumstances upon his Removal from one Nursery to t'other; For my own part (and I love to measure the Excellency of others by my own Imperfections) long before I arrived at Oxford, I was so often Complemented with the worthy Titles of, Idle Rogue, Arch Bastard, Unlucky Dog, and sometimes Rebel, Truant, and Sawcebox, among the Tory Criticks: that I soon found I was no Rasa Tabula; I see it in his Looks, says one, I read it in his Face, says another; Now they must be strange Readers indeed, who can see and peruse, where there's nothing written or inscribed; Whither the Doctor did not exceed me in Literature, has been abundantly made out to the World; and till I am satisfied that he never pulled Geese, Thumb'd a Primmer, Tore a Bible, disputed with his Dad about the Rights of Nature, or Tipp'd all Nine out of a Republican Principle, without any regard to the Middle Pinn, I must believe in Charity to the Doctor, that he went a Tabula Inscripta to the University, and that this was discernible even on the Reverse of him, in very plain [end page 8] and legible Characters. What this Author says, does by no means take off from the Calumny: that he as a Rasa Tabula, educated in the Country: for tho' it be highly Reasonable that every Rasa Tabula should be well Educated, yet even a Country Education is not to be despised; I have known a Square Rasa Tabula of a Stone under the Education of a Country Cutter, speak sense enough to entitle it to a Place in a Church-yard: and therefore I see no Reason, why a Human Rasa Tabula, with a Country Education, should not deserve a Place in a Church and make a very good Catholick. I would have this Gentleman, the Defender, handsomly fall back into the primitive natural State of an uneducated Rasa Tabula, rather than be blotted over with such a senseless Inscription; A Blank Page exceeds a Treatise, that passes such Scurrilities as thses upon a Learned Doctor, for Wit and Reflection; A Rasa Tabula of a clean Sheet of Paper, has proved a Compliment to a certain Lord, when it was cry'd about as one of his Speeches, and it might have made as good a Treatise for the Defender.
(pp. 7-9)",Of Dr. W. Tind--
"","""What this Author says, does by no means take off from the Calumny: that he as a Rasa Tabula, educated in the Country: for tho' it be highly Reasonable that every Rasa Tabula should be well Educated, yet even a Country Education is not to be despised; I have known a Square Rasa Tabula of a Stone under the Education of a Country Cutter, speak sense enough to entitle it to a Place in a Church-yard: and therefore I see no Reason, why a Human Rasa Tabula, with a Country Education, should not deserve a Place in a Church and make a very good Catholick.""",4162,Writing,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",10738,2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:35:14 UTC,,"","In the First place, he undertakes to say, That the Doctor went a Rasa Tabula to the University; And then adds, he believed that all Human and Divine Knowledge as to be had there; Now Human Knowledge was to be had there; Now Human Knowledge and Divine Knowledge, are very General and Comprehensive Ideas: and where these are lodged in the Mind of a Child, it is impossible that Child should be a Rasa Tabula; Indeed a Rasa Tabula of about Fourteen or Fifteen Years old, ought by all means to be sent up in all hast to the University, and might I make no doubt be immediately Matriculated at the Labritory, without paying any Fees. Mr. Lock has not been pleased to Date the Age and Duration of this sort of Creatures: Neither does he assure us, whither the First Notion engraved on the Mental Surface, be a Rawhead, a Spoon, Pap, Thunder, of an Old Woman; There are Questionless, some [end page 7] Accidents and Disasters waiting round a Cradle, as also a Testacious and Impenitrable Species of Skulls, peculiar to some Constitutions, that may for a long time secure the well temper'd Brain from a too forward and hasty Impression; but whither this is commonly the Case of those who are thought proper to be sent to the University, is I think not yet agreed upon by Philosophers; Certain it is, that there is all the Reason in the World to believe, that the Doctor was in quite other Circumstances upon his Removal from one Nursery to t'other; For my own part (and I love to measure the Excellency of others by my own Imperfections) long before I arrived at Oxford, I was so often Complemented with the worthy Titles of, Idle Rogue, Arch Bastard, Unlucky Dog, and sometimes Rebel, Truant, and Sawcebox, among the Tory Criticks: that I soon found I was no Rasa Tabula; I see it in his Looks, says one, I read it in his Face, says another; Now they must be strange Readers indeed, who can see and peruse, where there's nothing written or inscribed; Whither the Doctor did not exceed me in Literature, has been abundantly made out to the World; and till I am satisfied that he never pulled Geese, Thumb'd a Primmer, Tore a Bible, disputed with his Dad about the Rights of Nature, or Tipp'd all Nine out of a Republican Principle, without any regard to the Middle Pinn, I must believe in Charity to the Doctor, that he went a Tabula Inscripta to the University, and that this was discernible even on the Reverse of him, in very plain [end page 8] and legible Characters. What this Author says, does by no means take off from the Calumny: that he as a Rasa Tabula, educated in the Country: for tho' it be highly Reasonable that every Rasa Tabula should be well Educated, yet even a Country Education is not to be despised; I have known a Square Rasa Tabula of a Stone under the Education of a Country Cutter, speak sense enough to entitle it to a Place in a Church-yard: and therefore I see no Reason, why a Human Rasa Tabula, with a Country Education, should not deserve a Place in a Church and make a very good Catholick. I would have this Gentleman, the Defender, handsomly fall back into the primitive natural State of an uneducated Rasa Tabula, rather than be blotted over with such a senseless Inscription; A Blank Page exceeds a Treatise, that passes such Scurrilities as thses upon a Learned Doctor, for Wit and Reflection; A Rasa Tabula of a clean Sheet of Paper, has proved a Compliment to a certain Lord, when it was cry'd about as one of his Speeches, and it might have made as good a Treatise for the Defender.
(pp. 7-9)",Of Dr. W. Tind--
"","""And here the Mind receives a great deal of Satisfaction, and has two of its Faculties gratified at the same time, while the Fancy is busy in copying after the Understanding, and transcribing Ideas out of the Intellectual World into the Material.""",4175,Writing,"Searching ""as it were"" in Chadwyck-Healey's Literary Theory Database. Found again, reading Neil Saccamano's ""The Sublime Force of Words in Addison's 'Pleasures'"" ELH 58:1 (1991): 83-106. p. 99",10834,2006-09-19 00:00:00 UTC,2013-05-02 15:04:51 UTC,2007-06-26,•I've included twice: Copying and Transcribing,"The Pleasures of the Imagination are not wholly confined to such particular Authors as are conversant in material Objects, but are often to be met with among the Polite Masters of Morality, Criticism, and other Speculations abstracted from Matter; who, though they do not directly treat of the visible Parts of Nature, often draw from them their Similitudes, Metaphors, and Allegories. By these Allusions a Truth in the Understanding is as it were reflected by the Imagination; we are able to see something like Colour and Shape in a Notion, and to discover a Scheme of Thoughts traced out upon Matter. And here the Mind receives a great deal of Satisfaction, and has two of its Faculties gratified at the same time, while the Fancy is busy in copying after the Understanding, and transcribing Ideas out of the Intellectual World into the Material.",Opening Paragraph
"","""There is another Set of Men that I must likewise lay a Claim to, whom I have lately called the Blanks of Society, as being altogether unfurnish'd with Ideas.""",7338,Writing,"Reading; found again searching ""mind"" in Project Gutenberg e-text. ",19987,2013-03-22 15:17:00 UTC,2013-03-22 15:17:00 UTC,,"","There is another Set of Men that I must likewise lay a Claim to, whom I have lately called the Blanks of Society, as being altogether unfurnish'd with Ideas, till the Business and Conversation of the Day has supplied them. I have often considered these poor Souls with an Eye of great Commiseration, when I have heard them asking the first Man they have met with, whether there was any News stirring? and by that Means gathering together Materials for thinking. These needy Persons do not know what to talk of, till about twelve a Clock in the Morning; for by that Time they are pretty good Judges of the Weather, know which Way the Wind sits, and whether the Dutch Mail be come in. As they lie at the Mercy of the first Man they meet, and are grave or impertinent all the Day long, according to the Notions which they have imbibed in the Morning, I would earnestly entreat them not to stir out of their Chambers till they have read this Paper, and do promise them that I will daily instil into them such sound and wholesome Sentiments, as shall have a good Effect on their Conversation for the ensuing twelve Hours.
(I, 46)",""
"","""Aristotle tells us that the World is a Copy or Transcript of those Ideas which are in the Mind of the first Being, and that those Ideas, which are in the Mind of Man, are a Transcript of the World: To this we may add, that Words are the Transcript of those Ideas which are in the Mind of Man, and that Writing or Printing are the Transcript of words.""",7453,Writing,"Searching ""mind"" in Project Gutenberg e-text.
",20866,2013-06-17 17:43:33 UTC,2013-06-17 17:43:33 UTC,,INTEREST.,"Aristotle tells us that the World is a Copy or Transcript of those Ideas which are in the Mind of the first Being, and that those Ideas, which are in the Mind of Man, are a Transcript of the World: To this we may add, that Words are the Transcript of those Ideas which are in the Mind of Man, and that Writing or Printing are the Transcript of words. As the Supreme Being has expressed, and as it were printed his Ideas in the Creation, Men express their Ideas in Books, which by this great Invention of these latter Ages may last as long as the Sun and Moon, and perish only in the general Wreck of Nature. Thus Cowley in his Poem on the Resurrection, mentioning the Destruction of the Universe, has those admirable Lines.
Now all the wide extended Sky,
And all th' harmonious Worlds on high,
And Virgil's sacred Work shall die.",""
"","""We observed a long Antrum or Cavity in the Sinciput, that was filled with Ribbons, Lace and Embroidery, wrought together in a most curious Piece of Network, the Parts of which were likewise imperceptible to the naked Eye. Another of these Antrums or Cavities was stuffed with invisible Billetdoux, Love-Letters, pricked Dances, and other Trumpery of the same Nature. In another we found a kind of Powder, which set the whole Company a Sneezing, and by the Scent discovered it self to be right Spanish. The several other Cells were stored with Commodities of the same kind, of which it would be tedious to give the Reader an exact Inventory.""",7470,Rooms and Writing,Reading,20899,2013-06-17 20:07:59 UTC,2013-06-17 20:07:59 UTC,,"","We observed a long Antrum or Cavity in the Sinciput, that was filled with Ribbons, Lace and Embroidery, wrought together in a most curious Piece of Network, the Parts of which were likewise imperceptible to the naked Eye. Another of these Antrums or Cavities was stuffed with invisible Billet-doux, Love-Letters, pricked Dances, and other Trumpery of the same Nature. In another we found a kind of Powder, which set the whole Company a Sneezing, and by the Scent discovered it self to be right Spanish. The several other Cells were stored with Commodities of the same kind, of which it would be tedious to give the Reader an exact Inventory.",""