Date: 1707
"Lest any understand what I have said a few Pages hence as if I wholly denied common Innate Principles, observe, That it is only actual Connate Knowledge that I deny, and in respect to which I say that the Soul is rasa tabula; but I confess a Natural Passive power for the knowing of them a...
preview | full record— Baxter, Richard (1615-1691)
Date: Jan 7 1712/13
"The Heart must be Tabula Rasa, white Paper to his Pen, soft Wax to his Seal: Let him write upon me what he pleaseth, and make what Impressions he pleaseth upon me."
preview | full record— Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
Date: 1725
"Thus a Tempest at Sea is often an Emblem of Wrath"
preview | full record— Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)
Date: 1729
"Secondly, 'Tis just matter of wonder & astonishment that ever one spark of faith was kindled in such an heart as thine is; [end page 124] an heart which had no predisposition or inclination in the least to believe; yea, it was not rasa tabula, like clean paper, void of any impression of f...
preview | full record— Flavell, John (bap. 1630, d. 1691)
Date: 1745
"We are told by Philosophers, of no small Note, that the Mind is, at first, a kind of Tabula rasa, or like a Piece of blank Paper, that it bears no original Inscriptions, when we come into the World,--that we owe all the Characters afterwards drawn upon it, to the Impressions made upon our Senses...
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1745
"As little would I agree with those Philosophers Constant mentioned, that the Mind resembles a Leaf of white Paper."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)