work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5640,"","Searching ""mind"" in Liberty Fund OLL",2005-08-18 00:00:00 UTC,"The advancement, consequently, and discovery of truth, is that end to which all regulations concerning religion ought principally to be adapted. Now, every species of intolerance which enjoins suppression and silence, and every species of persecution which enforces such injunctions, is adverse to the progress of truth; forasmuch as it causes that to be fixed by one set of men, at one time, which is much better, and with much more probability of success, left to the independent and progressive inquiry of separate individuals. Truth results from discussion and from controversy; is investigated by the labours and researches of private persons. Whatever, therefore, prohibits these, obstructs that industry and that liberty, which it is the common interest of mankind to promote. In religion, as in other subjects, truth, if left to itself, will almost always obtain the ascendancy. If different religions be professed in the same country, and the minds of men remain unfettered and unawed by intimidations of law, that religion which is founded in maxims of reason and credibility, will gradually gain over the other to it. I do not mean that men will formally renounce their ancient religion, but that they will adopt into it the more rational doctrines, the improvements and discoveries of the neighbouring sect; by which means the worse religion, without the ceremony of a reformation, will insensibly assimilate itself to the better. If popery, for instance, and protestantism were permitted to dwell quietly together, papists might not become protestants (for the name is commonly the last thing that is changed),* but they would become more enlightened and [end page 413] informed; they would by little and little incorporate into their creed many of the tenets of protestantism, as well as imbibe a portion of its spirit and moderation.
(pp. 413-4)",2011-06-26,15077,"•Footnote gives, ""*Would we let the name stand, we might often attract men without their perceiving it, much nearer to ourselves, than, if they did perceive it, they would be willing to come.""","""If different religions be professed in the same country, and the minds of men remain unfettered and unawed by intimidations of law, that religion which is founded in maxims of reason and credibility, will gradually gain over the other to it.""",Fetters,2011-05-27 14:09:31 UTC,"Book VI, Chapter 10. Religious Establishments and Toleration"
6753,"",Contributed by Dorothy Couchman,2010-07-20 20:56:34 UTC,"We may consider also, as a farther confirmation, that it is impossible, in the nature of things, that liberty can be bought or sold! It is neither saleable, nor purchasable. For if any one man can have an absolute property in the liberty of another, or, in other words, if he, who is called a master, can have a just right to command the actions of him, who is called a slave, it is evident that the latter cannot be accountable for those crimes, which the former may order him to commit. Now as every reasonable being is accountable for his actions, it is evident, that such a right cannot justly exist, and that human liberty, of course, is beyond the possibility either of sale or purchase. Add to this, that, whenever you sell the liberty of a man, you have the power only of alluding to the body: the mind cannot be confined or bound: it will be free, though its mansion be beset with chains. But if, in every sale of the human species, you are under the necessity of considering your slave in this abstracted light; of alluding only to the body, and of making no allusion to the mind; you are under the necessity also of treating him, in the same moment, as a brute, and of abusing therefore that nature, which cannot otherwise be considered, than in the double capacity of soul and body.
(II.iv, pp. 70-1)",2011-05-26,17981,"Mixed metaphor: mansion chained. (The body here is chained, not the mind?)","""Add to this, that, whenever you sell the liberty of a man, you have the power only of alluding to the body: the mind cannot be confined or bound: it will be free, though its mansion be beset with chains.""",Fetters,2011-05-26 19:17:16 UTC,"Part II, Chap. IV"
7013,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2011-07-18 17:51:54 UTC,"Yet are there some can waste their whole Age
Amid the Dullness of a College;
Whom Reason and Goodsense deride;
The Sons of PEDANTRY and PRIDE!
Heav'ns! of how cynnical a Nature
The school-taught Race of ALMA MATER!
Who, of cramp'd Mind and clouded Brain
Bind GENIUS in a Gothic Chain;
Whose Learning only proves of Use
Reason to vitiate or traduce;
While dark SMIGLECIUS frowns away
Each unsophisticated Ray!
Yet such as these affect the Skies;
Too supercilious to be wise!
(16-17, ll. 253-66)",,18903,"","""Heav'ns! of how cynnical a Nature / The school-taught Race of ALMA MATER! / Who, of cramp'd Mind and clouded Brain / Bind GENIUS in a Gothic Chain.""",Fetters,2011-07-18 17:52:32 UTC,""
7014,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2011-07-19 14:44:38 UTC,"Precious gift! O may'st thou rest,
Dear associate of my breast!
Happy shall I, Clara, be,
Thus possessing part of thee!
While affection fond as fair,
Forms a chain of every hair,
A chain, which round the willing mind,
Sensibility shall bind.
(vol. II, p. 110)",,18922,I've included the entire poem,"""While affection fond as fair, / Forms a chain of every hair, / A chain, which round the willing mind, / Sensibility shall bind.""",Fetters,2011-07-19 14:44:38 UTC,""
5663,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2011-07-19 19:08:20 UTC,"But short the light of Pleasure's transient gleam!
Soon Nature starting from the illusive dream
Shrinks back affrighted as her eyes survey
The horrid form of arbitrary sway.--
Monsters who built on vice their dreadful joy,
Proud of their crimes and happy to destroy,
Seiz'd the vast power that Freedom's sons resign'd,
And shook the rod of vengeance o'er mankind;
Life hung alone upon a tyrant's breath,
And each capricious frown awarded death.
Amid the waste of years though haply shine
A TITUS, TRAJAN, or an ANTONINE,
The short-liv'd interval more strongly shews
The striking contrast of despotic woes.
What force can free the mind that Vice has chain'd,
Or clear the current if the fountain's stain'd?--
No distant regions happier hopes afford
Beneath the empire of a milder lord;
Fear still beholds where'er her eye she flings,
Subjected states, and tributary kings;
And Power o'ertakes the exile as he goes
O'er LIBYAN deserts, or through SCYTHIAN snows.
(vol. ii, pp. 114-5)",,18923,"","""What force can free the mind that Vice has chain'd, / Or clear the current if the fountain's stain'd?""",Fetters,2011-07-19 19:08:20 UTC,""
5663,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2011-07-19 19:18:38 UTC,"In GAUL the contrast strongly mark'd appears
Of Reason's force, and Error's gloomy fears:
With fond delight her partial eye surveys
Each hallow'd prejudice of earlier days,
Yet though her sons with ancient rite adore
The legendary saints that liv'd of yore,
Oft arm'd by hate though Persecution stood,
And drench'd LUTETIA's walls with native blood;
Her's was the earliest boast with lenient care
To form soft Courtesy's attractive air;
Throw o'er the willing mind Politeness' chains,
And raise that empire which she yet maintains.
(vol. ii, pp. 143-4)",,18924,Lutetia is the ancient city that predates Paris. The affected naming confuses chronology here... Pye seems to be dating the birth of politeness to the early modern moment. ,"""Her's [Gaul's] was the earliest boast with lenient care / To form soft Courtesy's attractive air; / Throw o'er the willing mind Politeness' chains, / And raise that empire which she yet maintains.""",Fetters,2011-07-19 19:21:11 UTC,Part II
7021,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chains"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2011-07-20 16:02:21 UTC,"In fetters confined Our body complains,
Oppress'd is our mind, With heavier chains;
A burden of evils We horribly feel,
It turns us to devils, And sinks us to hell.",,18935,"The first prayer I found in HDIS is not in this book. Are there later editions or variant states and issues? Note, the 1785 edition seems to include 10 prayers only; the prayer from The Poetical Works is numbered 13. REVISIT and trace citation.","""In fetters confined Our body complains, / Oppress'd is our mind , With heavier chains.""",Fetters,2011-07-20 16:06:24 UTC,""
7139,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Drama)",2012-01-06 18:55:19 UTC,"CAPT. P.
If these pretty lasses come much in my way, I shall stand in need of all my constancy.
Air.--Captain.
Away ye giddy smiling throng,
Of tempting beauties fair and young;
My heart be true, altho' my tongue,
Shou'd sing of lovely Flora:
Or shou'd I gaze with fond desire,
Shou'd breath of roses fan the fire;
Or though I on a touch expire,
My soul is thine sweet Norah.
The bonds of Hymen o'er my mind,
My constant soul must ever bind;
To that dear woman left behind,
My kind, my tender Norah!
But, oh! I fear each mortal part,
Nay, e'en this true, this faithful heart,
Resistless to the Urchin's dart,
Shot by the eyes of Flora.
Illusive vapour, transient blaze,
Oh! vanish, while I wond'ring gaze;
But shine like Dian's silver rays,
My passion chaste for Norah:
Yet Hymen winks, and Venus smiles,
And passion ev'ry sense beguiles;
And Cupid with his thousand wiles
Assists my charming Flora.
(I.i)",,19377,"","""The bonds of Hymen o'er my mind, / My constant soul must ever bind.""",Fetters,2012-01-06 18:55:19 UTC,"Act I, Scene i"
7140,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Drama)",2012-01-06 19:06:35 UTC,"VIOLA.
My freedom I gladly resign,
Nor shall I for liberty ever repine.
OCTAVIO.
And I from my purpose will never depart,
To bind faster those bonds in which Love holds your heart.
(III.iii)",,19379,"","""And I from my purpose will never depart, / To bind faster those bonds in which Love holds your heart.""",Fetters,2012-01-06 19:06:44 UTC,"Act III, Scene iii"
5663,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2012-01-09 18:15:10 UTC,"The increasing powers of ripening sense pervade
The gloomy stillness of the cloister's shade,
Destroy the bonds that Reason's force confin'd,
And burst the fetters that enchain'd the mind.
Though the lone Abbey from barbarian rage
Sav'd the bright ruins of the classic page;
Though sometimes meek Religion's holy form
Would faintly shine through Superstition's storm:
Yet every vice that shuns the face of day
Work'd in monastic night it's secret way;
Each impious wile the Church unceasing tries,
That spreads her empire, or her stores supplies;
Now on the expiring votary's heart employs
The enchanting vision of seraphic joys,
Now bids despair attend the parting breath,
And plants with thorns the trembling bed of death;
Draws from the fears of langour and of pain
The rich possession, and the wide domain,
On the sad Widow's spoil the altar rears,
And bathes the sacred fane with Orphan tears.
Drunk with the vast excess of wealth and power,
Unmindful of returning Reason's hour,
She boldly prostitutes the laws of Heaven,
And for vile lucre is the indulgence given.
Crimes even that Nature shudders to behold
Obtain their pardon for the stated gold,
And impious leave for future Vice is sold.
But the long reign of Gothic night is pass'd,
And Wisdom's awful morning dawns at last,
The fierce anathemas unheeded come,
And Luther shakes the enormous power of Rome.
The forms of Falshood strive in vain to bear
The trying search of Truth's ethereal spear.
Even those less happy regions that remain
Press'd by the weight of Error's galling chain,
Immers'd in clouds of darkness though they seem,
Catch a faint twilight from the distant beam:
Convinc'd that true Religion's piercing eye
Will every source of pious fraud descry,
The furious Priest corrects his cruel zeal,
And milder sway the breathing nations feel,
Mercy's soft calls the bigot's wrath assuage,
And papal thunder loses half it's rage.",,19420,"","""The increasing powers of ripening sense pervade / The gloomy stillness of the cloister's shade, / Destroy the bonds that Reason's force confin'd, / And burst the fetters that enchain'd the mind.""",Fetters,2012-01-09 18:15:10 UTC,""