"The Mind, like a Tabula rasa, easyly receives the first Impression; and, like that, when the first Impression is deeply made, it with Difficulty admits of an Erasement of the first Characters, which in some Minds are indelible"
— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cooper
Date
1742 [see first edition, 1733]
Metaphor
"The Mind, like a Tabula rasa, easyly receives the first Impression; and, like that, when the first Impression is deeply made, it with Difficulty admits of an Erasement of the first Characters, which in some Minds are indelible"
Metaphor in Context
The Mind, like a Tabula rasa, easyly receives the first Impression; and, like that, when the first Impression is deeply made, it with Difficulty admits of an Erasement of the first Characters, which in some Minds are indelible: my Intent therefore, in the following Discourses, is to expel those Ideas which arise from a bad Education, and to substitute, in Minds which are capable thereof, such as are consistent with the Attributes of God and the Appearance of Things.
(p. 51)
(p. 51)
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Provenance
Searching "tabula rasa" in ECCO
Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1733, 1742, 1748).
See A Demonstration of the Will of God by the Light of Nature, in Eight Discourses (London: Printed for F. Cogan, 1733). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Thomas Cooke, A Demonstration of the Will of God by the Light of Nature, in Eight Discourses, With an Introduction, Shewing the Necessity of Enquiring After Truth, ... to Which Is Prefixed a Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury Concerning Persecution for Religion and Freedom of Debate, Proving Liberty to Be the Support of Truth, and the Natural Property of Mankind (London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1742).
See A Demonstration of the Will of God by the Light of Nature, in Eight Discourses (London: Printed for F. Cogan, 1733). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Thomas Cooke, A Demonstration of the Will of God by the Light of Nature, in Eight Discourses, With an Introduction, Shewing the Necessity of Enquiring After Truth, ... to Which Is Prefixed a Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury Concerning Persecution for Religion and Freedom of Debate, Proving Liberty to Be the Support of Truth, and the Natural Property of Mankind (London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1742).
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Date of Entry
10/10/2006
