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Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741

"Here too is Paper; but it is as spotless as your Mind"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741

Children are at a time in their life "when, like Wax, their tender Minds may be moulded into what Shape they please"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741

"I can write my whole Mind to you, tho' I cannot, from the most deplorable Infelicity, receive from you the wish'd for Favour of a few Lines in Return, written with the same Unreservedness."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1747

"Now the Purpose for which [Lestrange] principally intended his Book, as in his Preface he spends a great many Words to inform us, was for the Use and Instruction of Children; who being, as it were, a mere rasa tabula, or blank Paper, are ready indifferently for any Opinion, good or bad, taking a...

— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop

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Date: 1747

"What sort of Children therefore are the Blank Paper, upon which such Morality as this ought to be written?"

— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop

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Date: 1747

"Let the Children of Italy, France, Spain, and the rest of the Popish Countries, furnish him with Blank Paper for Principles, of which free-born Britons are not capable."

— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop

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Date: 1747-8

One's "delicate and even mind" may be see in "the very cut of her letters"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1749

Dirt or Rags cannot "hide this Something [in true Beauty] from those Souls which are not of the vulgar Stamp"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1749

"[L]et the Remembrance of what past at Upton blot me for ever from your Mind"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1751

"Surely, says I, this ought to be engraven on Brass, as I wish it was on my Heart"

— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.