Date: 1705
"The Soul of Man, before it has received any Impression on it, is compar'd to a Rasa Tabula, by Philosophers, that is, It is as it were, a plain capable of any Impression whatever"
preview | full record— Coward, William (b. 1656/7, d. in or before 1725)
Date: 1705, 1709
"Has She a Bodkin and a Card? / She'll prick her Mind."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1707
"Lest any understand what I have said a few Pages hence as if I wholly denied common Innate Principles, observe, That it is only actual Connate Knowledge that I deny, and in respect to which I say that the Soul is rasa tabula; but I confess a Natural Passive power for the knowing of them a...
preview | full record— Baxter, Richard (1615-1691)
Date: 1707
"There [in a softer mind] shall his sacred spirit dwell, / And deep engrave his law, / And every motion of our souls / To swift obedience draw."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"'O let my Name ingraven stand, / 'Both on thy Heart and on thy Hand."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"The cursed Deed will turn me savage wild, / Blot ev'ry Thought of Nature from my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1710
"But now, my Lord, I am coming to the melancholly Part of fair Agnes's Description, her Mind, 'twas all a Blot, nor had it ever been otherways; she had no Notion of Things, no Discourse, no Memory."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1711
"The Mind of Man is allowed to be a Rasa Tabula, which in the Old Account of things, alludes to those Tablets of Wax, on which the Ancients wrote and engross'd all their Business; But in a Modern Translation, this can signify nothing else, but a fair Sheet of Paper: over which we must suppose the...
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1711
"From this Account it is plain, that the Desire of Being in Print, is an Idea, if not Unnate, yet one of the first that gets into our Minds: whence all Men express a Natural Propensity and Inclination, to be Authors"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1711
"In the First place, he undertakes to say, That the Doctor went a Rasa Tabula to the University; And then adds, he believed that all Human and Divine Knowledge as to be had there."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)