Date: 1781
"May God write it upon all your hearts!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John (1703-1791)
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)
Date: 1782
A poet may "in robes of beauty to array, / And in bright Order's lucid blaze display, / The forms that Fancy, to thy wishes kind, / Stamps on the tablet of thy clearer mind"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
Books may adorn one's "intellects as well as shelves"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
A people may receive the "transcript of the eternal mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1783
Children's "minds, like a sheet of white paper, are susceptible to every impression"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: w. 1782-3, 1801
Love's laws may be "written in the mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1784, 1804
"But his spiritual kingdom is not of this world; the throne of grace is in heaven; his laws are from heaven, and written in the minds of all his subjects."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1785
A ruined mind may be "A blank of Nature, vanish'd every thought / That Nature, Reason, that Experience taught."
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)