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Date: 1781
"Ideas of sense are but the first elements of thought: and the produce raised from these elements by the operation of the mind upon them is as far superiour to the elements themselves in variety, copiousness and use, as books are to the characters of which they are composed."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1782
"The wise philosopher tells us, that the soul of man is rasa tabula, like a white sheet of paper, out of which it must be more than common art to erase the first impressions"
preview | full record— Grose, John (bap. 1758, d. 1821)