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Date: 1757

"Let heav'n-born Mercy ever fill thy Breast, / And Truth be there an ever constant Guest."

— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758?)

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Date: 1757

"Did I wait upon Bishop Gibson to acquaint him that I was a Free-thinker, that my mind was a tabula rasa!"

— Bower, Archibald (1686-1766)

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Date: 1757

"But when it is such a truth, as I do not only hear, but feel; and it comes home to my own very sense and experience: shall any sophistical reasonings wrangle me out of it; what though I cannot resolve the question, [GREEK CHARACTERS] whence the evil was derived: whether from the soul formed in t...

— Jenks, Benjamin (bap. 1648, d. 1724)

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Date: 1757

"And whatever any talk of (the rasa tabula,) an indifferency by nature, to virtue or vice: never could I find any such thing; but all men inclined the wrong way: and abundance of work, by discipline, and the grace of God, to make any one better than the rest."

— Jenks, Benjamin (bap. 1648, d. 1724)

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Date: 1757-9

Neither reason nor advice can rule love

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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Date: 1757-9

Peace and war alternately succeed in the lover

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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Date: 1757-9

Caprice veers like the Winds

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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Date: 1757-9

"[N]o Sentence so severe / As this, my Mind, much less my Paper, stains"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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Date: 1757-9

"But Virtue Minds of nobler Stamp invites / To her sincere and more refin'd Delights."

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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Date: 1757-9

"His Colour chang'd, and hung his Head, / As if some Thief had lately stole / His Gold; his other better Soul--"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.