Date: 1768
"When the situation is, what we would wish, nothing is so ill-timed as to hint at the circumstances which make it so: you thank Fortune, continued she--you had reason--the heart knew it, and was satisfied; and who but an English philosopher would have sent notices of it to the brain to reverse th...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1771
"The infant mind at coming to the world, is a meer rasa tabula, destitute of all ideas and materials of reflection."
preview | full record— Usher, James (1720-1771)
Date: 1771
"It is a charte blanche, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a rasa tabula or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and f...
preview | full record— Usher, James (1720-1771)
Date: 1772
" Thy Patriot worth above all Art, / Shall live, engraven on the Heart"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1775
A fellow may be forgotten--illiterated from the memory
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1767, 1778
A "sacred legacy with time shall last" and "On thankful hearts engrav'd, what thou hast done"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)