"But be our Minds Rasae Tabulae, or not, it will be the part of Wise Men to inculcate and Impress upon them, when they are Young and Tender, the most Noble Sentiments, of which they are Capable."
— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Printed at the University-Press, by Cornelius Crownfield, and are to be sold by him, E. Jefferys, and W. Thurlbourne booksellers in Cambridge, and by J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, W. and J. Innys, and B. Motte, London
Date
1727
Metaphor
"But be our Minds Rasae Tabulae, or not, it will be the part of Wise Men to inculcate and Impress upon them, when they are Young and Tender, the most Noble Sentiments, of which they are Capable."
Metaphor in Context
But be our Minds Rasae Tabulae, or not, it will be the part of Wise Men to inculcate and Impress upon them, when they are Young and Tender, the most Noble Sentiments, of which they are Capable; This seems to have been the Practice of the most Antient and Eastern Nations, from whom the Greeks and Romans, and the Present Europeans, Derive all their Principles of Reason, Philosophy, Religion, and Learning; For they in their very Alphabets, which they Taught their Children, Appear to have Contrived them for their instruction, in the Grand and Sublime Dictates of Religion and Reason, at the same Time, as they Learned and were informed, how to Write and Read; So that the Alphabet of the Eastern Countries, and the Old Egyptians, in all Probability, was a Summary of Divine and Moral Precepts, Convey'd to them with the very Rudiments of their Language and from their Infancy, Expressed by Hieroglyphicks, and Explained by their Magi, or their Instructors; And from whence, the Fables of the Antients Possibly, and Particularly those of Aesop were Modelled and Framed.
(V.ii.6, p. 603)
(V.ii.6, p. 603)
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Provenance
Searching "tabula rasa" in ECCO
Citation
Greene, Robert. The principles of the philosophy of the expansive and contractive forces. Or an inquiry into the principles of the modern philosophy, that is, into the several chief rational sciences, which are extant. In seven books. By Robert Greene, ... Cambridge, 1727. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO
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Date of Entry
10/08/2006
