Date: 1800
"The great Mr. Locke, and several other ingenious philosophers, have represented the human intellect, antecedent to its intercourse with external objects, as a tabula rasa, or a substance capable of receiving any impressions, but upon which no original impressions of any kind are stamped."
preview | full record— Smellie, William (1740-1795)
Date: 1810
"As pliant hands in shapes refin'd / Rich iv'ry carve and smooth, / His laws thus mould each ductile mind, / And ev'ry passion soothe"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1810
"As gems are taught by patient art / In sparkling ranks to beam, / With manners thus he forms the heart, / And spreads a gen'ral gleam"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)