"There is no body who has consider'd ever so little the nature of the sensible part, the Soul or Mind, but knows that in the same manner as without action, motion and employment, the Body languishes and is oppress'd, its Nourishment grows the matter and food of Disease, the Spirits unconsum'd help to consume the Body, and Nature as it were preys upon it self."
— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Bell
Date
1699, 1714
Metaphor
"There is no body who has consider'd ever so little the nature of the sensible part, the Soul or Mind, but knows that in the same manner as without action, motion and employment, the Body languishes and is oppress'd, its Nourishment grows the matter and food of Disease, the Spirits unconsum'd help to consume the Body, and Nature as it were preys upon it self."
Metaphor in Context
THERE is no body who has consider'd ever so little the nature of the sensible part, the Soul or Mind, but knows that in the same manner as without action, motion and employment, the Body languishes and is oppress'd, its Nourishment grows the matter and food of Disease, the Spirits unconsum'd help to consume the Body, and Nature as it were preys upon it self; so also that sensible and living part, the Soul or Mind, wanting its proper and natural exercise, is burden'd, and diseas'd; and its Thoughts and Passions being unnaturally witheld from their due Objects, turn against it self, and create the highest impatience. For the Mind or Soul, which more than the Body requires agitation and exercise, cannot be but in a state of Feeling or Passion, of some kind, and under some certain Affection or other: if not under such Affection as may fitly employ it in proportionable and fit subject; yet however under such as will make it a burden, disease and torment to it self.
(p. 140 in 1699 edition)
(p. 140 in 1699 edition)
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A complicated publication history. At least 10 entries in ESTC (1699, 1711, 1714, 1733, 1744, 1751, 1757, 1758, 1773, 1790).
See An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, in Two Discourses; Viz. I. of Virtue, and the Belief of a Deity. II. of the Obligations to Virtue. (London: Printed for A. Bell, 1699). <Link to ESTC><Link to EEBO>
See also "An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit" in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes. (London: John Darby, 1711). <Link to ESTC>
Some text drawn from EEBO and ECCO, most from Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: CUP, 2001). Klein's text is based on the British Library's copy of the second edition of 1714. [Texts to be collated.]
See An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, in Two Discourses; Viz. I. of Virtue, and the Belief of a Deity. II. of the Obligations to Virtue. (London: Printed for A. Bell, 1699). <Link to ESTC><Link to EEBO>
See also "An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit" in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes. (London: John Darby, 1711). <Link to ESTC>
Some text drawn from EEBO and ECCO, most from Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: CUP, 2001). Klein's text is based on the British Library's copy of the second edition of 1714. [Texts to be collated.]
Date of Entry
11/23/2013
