Date: 1747
"Now the Purpose for which [Lestrange] principally intended his Book, as in his Preface he spends a great many Words to inform us, was for the Use and Instruction of Children; who being, as it were, a mere rasa tabula, or blank Paper, are ready indifferently for any Opinion, good or bad, taking a...
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop
Date: 1747
"What sort of Children therefore are the Blank Paper, upon which such Morality as this ought to be written?"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop
Date: 1747
"Let the Children of Italy, France, Spain, and the rest of the Popish Countries, furnish him with Blank Paper for Principles, of which free-born Britons are not capable."
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop
Date: 1747-8
One's "delicate and even mind" may be see in "the very cut of her letters"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1749
"With a diamond's point it [sin] stands / Engraven on my heart / Wrote by mine, and Satan's hands / It mocks the' eraser's art."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"See Lord, the Object of thy Love, / And O come quickly from above, / The Blessing to impart, / Him to Thyself by Faith unite, / And in large bloody Letters write / Forgiveness on his Heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)
Date: 1749
Those who know the righteousness of faith may "lovingly obedient show / The law engraven on [their] hearts."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
Dirt or Rags cannot "hide this Something [in true Beauty] from those Souls which are not of the vulgar Stamp"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
"[L]et the Remembrance of what past at Upton blot me for ever from your Mind"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: April 1750, 1791
"Hail, wond'rous Being, who in pow'r supreme / Exists from everlasting, whose great Name / Deep in the human heart, and every atom, / The Air, the Earth or azure Main contains, / In undecypher'd characters is wrote."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)