work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3280,"","Reading Maclean's John Locke and English Literature (1962), p. 33. Maclean cites Donne, but qualifies that the poem is probably written by Sir John Roe. H. R. Woudhuysen also notes that this metaphor is erroneously attributed to Donne. See his ""Writing-Tables and Table-Books."" sBLJ Article 3. (2004). <http://www.bl.uk/collections/eblj/2004/pdfarticles/article3.pdf>.",2005-03-27 00:00:00 UTC,"The mind, you know is like a Table-Book,
Which, th'old unwipt, new writing never took",2007-04-26,8542,"•Maclean cites Donne, but qualifies that the poem is probably written by Sir John Roe.","""The mind, you know is like a Table-Book""","",2009-09-14 19:33:38 UTC,""
3406,Blank Slate,"Reading Neal Wood's ""Tabula Rasa, Social Environmentalism, and the 'English Paradigm'."" Journal of the History of Ideas 53:4 (1992): 647-68.p. 658.",2005-06-22 00:00:00 UTC,"8. Another thing necessary, is the rooting out from the consciences of men all those opinions which seem to justify, and give pretence of right to rebellious actions; such as are: the opinion, that a man can do nothing lawfully against his private conscience; that they who have the sovereignty, are subject to the civil laws; that there is any authority of subjects, whose negative may hinder the affirmative of the sovereign power; that any subject hath a propriety distinct from the dominion of the commonwealth; that there is a body of the people without him or them that have the sovereign power; and that any lawful sovereign may be resisted under the name of a tyrant; which opinions are they, which, Part II. chap. 8, sect. 5-10, have been declared to dispose men to rebellion. And because opinions which are gotten by education, and in length of time are made habitual, cannot be taken away by force, and upon the sudden: they must therefore be taken away also, by time and education. And seeing the said opinions have proceeded from private and public teaching, and those teachers have received them from grounds and principles, which they have learned in the Universities, from the doctrine of Aristotle, and others (who have delivered nothing concerning morality and policy demonstratively; but being passionately addicted to popular government, have insinuated their opinions, by eloquent sophistry): there is no doubt, if the true doctrine concerning the law of nature, and the properties of a body politic, and the nature of law in general, were perspicuously set down, and taught in the Universities, but that young men, who come thither void of prejudice, and whose minds are yet as white paper, capable of any instruction, would more easily receive the same, and afterward teach it to the people, both in books and otherwise, than now they do the contrary.
(II.ix.8, p. 183)",2012-04-15,8697,"Note, D. Johnston in The Rhetoric of Leviathan connects this with Hobbes' other paper metaphor (the common people's minds, like ""clean paper"" (89). ","""[T]here is no doubt, if the true doctrine concerning the law of nature, and the properties of a body politic, and the nature of law in general, were perspicuously set down, and taught in the Universities, but that young men, who come thither void of prejudice, and whose minds are yet as white paper, capable of any instruction, would more easily receive the same, and afterward teach it to the people, both in books and otherwise, than now they do the contrary.""",Writing,2012-04-15 20:35:53 UTC,"Part II, Chapter ix"
3558,"","Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 115.",2006-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,"deny them he cannot, being convinced by two evidences against which there can bee no exception, the booke of the Law, & the booke of his owne Conscience, the one shall show him what he should have done, & the other what he hath done.
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against the book of the Law, hee shal be able to speake nothing, his Conscience telling him that the commaundements of the Lord are pure and righteous altogether: and for the booke of Conscience, against that he cannot possibly except, it being always in his owne keeping.
(459)",,9220,"","A sinner cannot deny his sins, ""being convinced by two evidences against which there can bee no exception, the booke of the Law, & the booke of his owne Conscience, the one shall show him what he should have done, & the other what he hath done.""","",2009-09-14 19:34:03 UTC,""
3558,"","Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 115.",2006-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,"deny them he cannot, being convinced by two evidences against which there can bee no exception, the booke of the Law, & the booke of his owne Conscience, the one shall show him what he should have done, & the other what he hath done.
[...]
against the book of the Law, hee shal be able to speake nothing, his Conscience telling him that the commaundements of the Lord are pure and righteous altogether: and for the booke of Conscience, against that he cannot possibly except, it being always in his owne keeping.
(459)",,9221,"","""[A]gainst the book of the Law, hee shal be able to speake nothing, his Conscience telling him that the commaundements of the Lord are pure and righteous altogether: and for the booke of Conscience, against that he cannot possibly except, it being always in his owne keeping.""","",2009-09-14 19:34:03 UTC,""
3559,Blank Slate,"Reading Maclean's John Locke and English Literature, (1962), p. 33",2005-03-27 00:00:00 UTC,"[The young soul is likened to] ""a white paper unscribled with observations of the world, wherewith at length it becomes a blurr'd Note-booke""",,9222,•I've included twice: Blank Paper and Note-booke,"The young soul is likened to ""a white paper unscribled with observations of the world, wherewith at length it becomes a blurr'd Note-booke""","",2009-09-14 19:34:03 UTC,""
3565,Innate Ideas,"Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 115-6.",2006-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,"the onely rule of our conscience, is the Law of God written in our hearts.
(1)",,9231,•REVISIT and fill out citation,"""[T]he onely rule of our conscience, is the Law of God written in our hearts.""","",2009-09-14 19:34:03 UTC,""
3565,Innate Ideas,"Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 118.",2006-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,"There are some principles so cleare, and written in the hearts of all men, that they cannot erre to obey and practise them.
(10)",,9232,•REVISIT and fill out citation,"""There are some principles so cleare, and written in the hearts of all men, that they cannot erre to obey and practise them.""","",2009-09-14 19:34:03 UTC,""
3565,Innate Ideas,"Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 118.",2006-10-03 00:00:00 UTC,"the Law of Nature, or ... the Law of God, which is naturally written in the hearts of all men.
(5)",,9233,•REVISIT and fill out citation,"""[T]he Law of Nature"" of ""the Law of God ... is naturally written in the hearts of all men.""","",2009-09-14 19:34:03 UTC,""
3406,"",Searching in Past Masters,2012-04-15 20:34:56 UTC,"8. There is a fault of the mind called by the Greeks [Amadia], which is INDOCIBILITY, or difficulty of being taught; the which must needs arise from a false opinion that they know already the truth of that which is called in question. For certainly men are not otherwise so unequal in capacity as the evidence is unequal of what is taught by the mathematicians, and what is commonly discoursed of in other books: and therefore if the minds of men were all of white paper, they would almost equally be disposed to acknowledge whatsoever should be in right method, and right ratiocination delivered unto them. But when men have once acquiesced in untrue opinions, and registered them as authentical records in their minds; it is no less impossible to speak intelligibly to such men, than to write legibly upon a paper already scribbled over. The immediate cause therefore of indocibility, is prejudice; and of prejudice, false opinion of our own knowledge.
(I.x.8, p. 48)",,19689,I find a third... Not cited elsewhere?,"""For certainly men are not otherwise so unequal in capacity as the evidence is unequal of what is taught by the mathematicians, and what is commonly discoursed of in other books: and therefore if the minds of men were all of white paper, they would almost equally be disposed to acknowledge whatsoever should be in right method, and right ratiocination delivered unto them. But when men have once acquiesced in untrue opinions, and registered them as authentical records in their minds; it is no less impossible to speak intelligibly to such men, than to write legibly upon a paper already scribbled over.""",Writing,2012-04-15 20:34:56 UTC,"Part I, Chapter x"
7668,"",Reading,2013-09-03 05:00:07 UTC,"These things you are to recall and consider in time of distress: to remember former graces and spiritual dispositions in you; and God's gracious dealings with you. God remembers them to have mercy on you; and why should you not remember them to comfort you? Therefore, Heb. vi. 9, 10, 'We hope,' say's he, 'better things of you; for God is not unrighteous to forget your labour of love;' namely, to reward you And therefore he calls upon them in like manner, Heb. x. 31, 'to call to remembrance the former days' to comfort them; how they held out when their hearts were tried to the bottom; when shipwreck was made of their goods, good names, and all for Christ,--yet they made not shipwreck of a good conscience. And if thou dost thus call to remembrance things of old, and yet canst find no comfort
at first from them,--as often ye may not, as was David's case. Psalm Ixxvii., for after his' remembrance of his songs in the night,' still his soul was left in doubt, and he goes on to say, ' Will God ever be merciful? '--yet have recourse to them again, and then again, for though they comfort not at one time, yet they may at another; that it may be seen that God comforts by them, and not they alone of themselves. Hast thou found a promise (which is a 'breast of consolation,' Isa. Ixvi 11) milkless? Yet again suck; comfort may come in the end. If after thou hast empanelled a jury and grand inquest to search, and their first verdict condemns thee, or they bring in an ignoramus; yet do as wise judges often do, send them about it again, they may find it the next time. Jonah looked once, it seems, and found no comfort, chap. ii. 4, for he said, 'I will look again towards thine holy temple.' A man's heart is like those two-faced pictures: if you look one way towards one side of them, you shall see nothing but some horrid shape of a devil, or the like; but go to the other side and look again, and you shall see the picture of an angel or of some beautiful woman, &c. So some have looked over their hearts by signs at one time, and have to their thinking found nothing but hypocrisy, unbelief, hardness, self-seeking; but not long after, examining their hearts again by the same signs, they have espied the image of God drawn fairly upon the table of their hearts.
(Part II, Direction iv, p. 322)",,22659,"","""So some have looked over their hearts by signs at one time, and have to their thinking found nothing but hypocrisy, unbelief, hardness, self-seeking; but not long after, examining their hearts again by the same signs, they have espied the image of God drawn fairly upon the table of their hearts.""","",2013-09-03 05:00:07 UTC,""