Date: 1780
Locke expelled innate ideas by asserting that "disquisition and proof were the test of truth; and that whatever would not stand their touch, must be considered as base metal."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1789
"'Is there a Man, who, wealthy to no end, / 'Ne'er knew the common wish to be a Friend, / 'Whose callous Heart's to all Compassion steel'd?"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1801
"'Cease base seducers! cease; against your art / 'By truth and virtue is my firm mind steel'd."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
"'These are my darling attributes, which heal / 'Remorse and shame, which crimes with virtues blend, / 'Which teach the soul conviction to conceal, / 'And the firm heart against upbraiding conscience steel."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
"'Let your expertest ministers be sent/ 'His heart against compassion's touch to steel;
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
"'Still thy vindictive measures to befriend, / 'And for to-morrow's proof thy soul to steel."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
" And, while around their spells accurs'd they shed, / For deeds of foul import his breast they steel'd"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
"Remorseless fury steel'd each rugged breast"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"Thus with the show of reason, but with hearts, / By faction tainted, and by envy steel'd / Against their youthful leader, they had hop'd / By these inglorious councils to degrade / And tarnish his high fame."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1815
"I know full well you cannot steel / Your breast, against the pains I feel"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)