Date: Monday, May 26, 1712
"I faint; I die! my laboring Breast / Is with the mighty Weight of Love opprest: / I feel the Fire possess my Heart, / And pain conveyed to every Part."
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Date: Monday, May 26, 1712
"My feeble Soul forsakes its Place, / A trembling Faintness seals my Eyes, / And Paleness dwells upon my Face."
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Date: 1726
"As to the understanding, [Epicurus] believ'd, That at first it had no ideas; that it was a kind of tabula rasa; and that, when the organs of the body are form'd, its knowledge of things increases gradually by the mediation of the senses."
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Date: 1730
"Now, if such a complex being were in nature, how would that spiritual Soul act in that Body, that in its first Union with it (excepting some universal Principles) is a rasa Tabula, as a white Paper, without the Notices of Things written in it?"
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Date: January, 1730
"There are in all Souls, (not perfect Ideots,) as in the midst of clos'd-up flowers, some seeds of knowledge and science, which never disclose and shew themselves, till the quick'ning sunshine of learning and education open the understanding, and discover those hidden seeds of natural knowledge, ...
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Date: January, 1730
Those without education and proper instruction are exposed "from within, to sudden rashness, inconsideration and imprudence, to the mutinous rebellion of sensual inclinations aud passions."
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Date: January, 1730
"For the Soul, without the discipline of wisdom and instruction, is all hoisted up sail and sheet, and has no compass or rudder to sail by."
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Date: January, 1730
"Reason and prudence sit not at the helm, in such a mind, to guide and steer the vessel of its body; but wild fancy and imagination, irregular lust and passion, drive it on the destructive rocks of folly, vice and presumption."
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Date: 1731
"The Mind is a meer tabula rasa, originally without any Impression, Stamp or Character whatsoever, (unless we'll suppose it the same with Brutes) but capable of any, and most apt to receive the first that offers, till external Objects furnish it with distinct Ideas, and from thence ...
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Date: November, 1732
"Vulcan's Man ought to have had a Window in his Breast, to see what pass'd within."
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