Date: 1800
"The great Mr. Locke, and several other ingenious philosophers, have represented the human intellect, antecedent to its intercourse with external objects, as a tabula rasa, or a substance capable of receiving any impressions, but upon which no original impressions of any kind are stamped."
preview | full record— Smellie, William (1740-1795)
Date: February, 1821
"I said to myself, 'This is true eloquence: this is a man pouring out his mind on paper.'"
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: 1823
"His mind was in its original state of white paper."
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"His pen was not less erring than his heart"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1825
"In this respect his mind resembled a well arranged volume; in which every subject forms a separate section, and each view of that subject a separate page."
preview | full record— Dwight, Sereno Edwards (1786-1850) and William Theodore Dwight (1795-1865)