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Date: 1745
"We are told by Philosophers, of no small Note, that the Mind is, at first, a kind of Tabula rasa, or like a Piece of blank Paper, that it bears no original Inscriptions, when we come into the World,--that we owe all the Characters afterwards drawn upon it, to the Impressions made upon our Senses...
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1745
"As little would I agree with those Philosophers Constant mentioned, that the Mind resembles a Leaf of white Paper."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1767
"He is now reduced to the greatest want and beggary, he is become a meer tabula rasa, a sheet of blank paper, a page of perfect inanity."
preview | full record— Campbell, Archibald (bap. 1724, d. 1780)
