Date: 1738, 1739
"The Mind, a Blank, when Life begins to flow, / But without Knowledge capable to know, / The God of Nature to our Care commits; / As to the Press we send th' unsully'd Sheets."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"And as with Milton's Numbers, or with mine, / Those Sheets come forth, as Corbet may enjoin; / So Education on the Mind imprints / Sublime Ideas, or low trivial Hints."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1739
"True Witness of my Sonship Thou, / Engraving Pardon on my Heart: / Seal of my Sins in CHRIST forgiven, / Earnest of Love, and Pledge of Heav'n."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"Father, all thy Commands to do: / Ah deep engrave it on my Breast, / That I in Thee ev'n now am blest."
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Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"Here too is Paper; but it is as spotless as your Mind"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
Children are at a time in their life "when, like Wax, their tender Minds may be moulded into what Shape they please"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"I can write my whole Mind to you, tho' I cannot, from the most deplorable Infelicity, receive from you the wish'd for Favour of a few Lines in Return, written with the same Unreservedness."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741
"Early instruct your tender Youth / In Heav'n's unerring Law of Truth, / Engrave it on their Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1741
"Ere Vice the spotless Paper foul, / Imprint the Volume of the Soul / With Vertue's noble Mark!"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1741
"Vertue's noble mark ... extending by degrees, / Shall grow like Letters carv'd on Trees / That widen with the Bark."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)