Date: 1755
"These simple ideas, offered to the mind, the understanding can no more refuse, nor alter, nor blot out, than a mirrour can refuse, alter, or obliterate, the images which the objects produce"
preview | full record— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
Heads overfull of matter, be like pens over full of ink, which will sooner blot, than make any fair letters at all.
preview | full record— Ascham's Schoolmaster [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]