Date: 1781
"May God write it upon all your hearts!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John (1703-1791)
Date: 1782
"The wise philosopher tells us, that the soul of man is rasa tabula, like a white sheet of paper, out of which it must be more than common art to erase the first impressions"
preview | full record— Grose, John (bap. 1758, d. 1821)
Date: 1783
Children's "minds, like a sheet of white paper, are susceptible to every impression"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1784, 1804
"But his spiritual kingdom is not of this world; the throne of grace is in heaven; his laws are from heaven, and written in the minds of all his subjects."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1788-89
"According to Mr. Locke, the soul is a mere rasa tabula, an empty recipient, a mechanical blank."
preview | full record— Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)
Date: 1788-89
"According to Plato, she [the soul] is an ever-written tablet, a plenitude of forms, a vital and intellectual energy."
preview | full record— Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)
Date: 1788
"But in general, I know of no method of getting money, not even that of robbing for it upon the highway, which has so direct a tendency to efface the moral sense, to rob the heart of every gentle and humane disposition, and to harden it, like steel, against all impressions of sensibility."
preview | full record— Newton, John (1725-1807)