Date: 1748
"And how much more consistent is it with our Notions of a just God, and our boasted Freedom of Will, to supposed the Soul, when finished by its Creator, to be a pure tabula rasa, endued with only one extensive Faculty capable of guiding it through the dark Labyrinth of Life, then co...
preview | full record— Loredano, Giovanni Francesco (1607-1661)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Not all the volumes on thy shelf, / Are worth that single volume, Self."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Life's records rise on ev'ry side, / And Conscience spreads those volumes wide; / Which faithful registers were brought / By pale-ey'd Fear and busy Thought. / Those faults which artful men conceal, / Stand here engrav'd with pen of steel, / By Conscience, that impartial scribe!"
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1755
"[...] a Storehouse, as it were, with Bags, Shelves, and Drawers, to lodge Ideas in, and, at the same Time, to compare these Impressions, such as a Seal makes upon Wax, (when Impressions are worn out, how are they to be renewed without a fresh Application of the Seal?) Footsteps, Traces, &c. and ...
preview | full record— Richardson, J. of Newent (fl. 1755)
Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find, / Begotten from above"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1770
"That the mind of man, previous to the information of the senses, is a tabula rasa, a blank, without ideas, without knowledge, is a doctrine too well supported by this great master of reason to suffer a shock."
preview | full record— Baker, William (1742-1785)
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: 1773
"Though you are so happy as to have parents, who are both capable and desirous of giving you all proper instruction, yet I, who love you so tenderly, cannot help fondly wishing to contribute something, if possible, to your improvement and welfare: and, as I am so far separated from you, that it i...
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)