text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"The human brain is a bodily substance; and sensible and permanent impressions made upon it must so far resemble those made [end page 10] on sand by the foot, or on wax by the seal, as to have certain shape, length, breadth, and deepness. Now such an impression can only be made by that, which had solidity, magnitude, and figure. If then we remember thoughts, feelings, sounds, as well as things visible and tangible, which will hardly be denied; those sounds, thoughts, and feelings, must have a body, and, consequently, shape, size, and weight. What then is the size or weight of a sound? Is it an inch long, or half an inch? Does it weigh an ounce, or a grain? Does the roar of a cannon bear any resemblance to the ball, or to the powder, in shape, in weight, or in magnitude? What figure has the pain of the toothach, and our remembrance of that pain? Is it triangular, or circular, or of a square form? The bare mention of these consequences may prove the absurdity of the theories that lead to them.
(II.i, pp. 10-11)",2012-01-28 18:18:16 UTC,"""The human brain is a bodily substance; and sensible and permanent impressions made upon it must so far resemble those made on sand by the foot, or on wax by the seal, as to have certain shape, length, breadth, and deepness""",2005-07-25 00:00:00 UTC,Chapter II. Phenomena and Laws of Memory. Section I.,"",2012-01-28,Impression,"•I've included twice: Footprint and Wax
•See also previous entry. Beattie prepares to deny metaphors of impression here. Rhetorical questions used to make case. USE IN ENTRY. INTEREST.",Reading,14914,5586
"Thus we see how the Mind necessarily depends, immediatly upon her own Body, and by Means thereof, upon other external Objects, for her Pleasures or Pains. Now,'tis this Dependence, which the Mind Is always conscious she has upon the Body, that engageth her in so very deep a Concern for it. For if the Mind suffer'd no Alteration in her State, from whatever Impressions might be made on it by external Objects, we have no Reason to believe, but that she would as easily part with a Limb, or any other Member whatsoever, as we now do with our Hair, and other Excrescences. But when the Mind sensibly feels, that the Body is the great Organ whereby, she receives so many of her agreeable and painful Sensations, and that these Things always happen, to her, according to the Condition the Body is in, and the Impressions it derives from external Objects, this makes her to interest her self in the State of the Body, as much as she does in her own Perceptions, and to employ as tender a Concernment about its Situation, as about the Manner of her own Existence. By which Means she always bears a mighty Liking and Good-will to the Body; which is very much encreased from considering its Usefulness, and that it serves as a very commodious Engine to carry her about in her Diversions and Amusements, and to procure other Objects which she feels as necessary to her Happiness.
(pp. 183-4)",2013-07-16 15:34:09 UTC,"""Now,'tis this Dependence, which the Mind Is always conscious she has upon the Body, that engageth her in so very deep a Concern for it. For if the Mind suffer'd no Alteration in her State, from whatever Impressions might be made on it by external Objects, we have no Reason to believe, but that she would as easily part with a Limb, or any other Member whatsoever, as we now do with our Hair, and other Excrescences.""",2013-07-16 15:34:09 UTC,"","",,Impressions,"",Google Book,21790,7546