Date: 1713, 1734
"You cannot say objects are in your mind, as books in your study: or that things are imprinted on it, as the figure of a seal upon wax."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: Jan 7 1712/13
"The Heart must be Tabula Rasa, white Paper to his Pen, soft Wax to his Seal: Let him write upon me what he pleaseth, and make what Impressions he pleaseth upon me."
preview | full record— Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
Date: July 23, 1703; 1714
"Time, I daily find, blots out apace the little Stock of my Mind, and has disabled me from furnishing all that I would willingly contribute to the Memory of that Learned Man.."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1714
"[F]oul Reproches ignominious Stain, / Sate deep engraven in his fearfull Heart,"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1714
"What iron Breast so hard that can endure / To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World."
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)