Date: 1705
"In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
" In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712, 1796
"He special care would of his safety take, / Both for his own, and for his father's sake, / Whose well-deservings of him, he should find, / Were deeply graven in a grateful mind."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
Date: 1715
"And here we must conceive the Mind as the chief Part of Man, a judging Substance, but free from all Anticipations and Ideas; a plain Rasa Tabula, but fit for any impressions from external Objects, and capable to make Deductions from them"
preview | full record— Lucretius Carus, Titus (94 B.C.- ca. 49 B.C.); Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1715
"But because this Notion of a Rasa Tabula will not agree with those, who are fond of some, I know not what, innate, speculative, and practical ideas; it will be necessary to consider the Instances they produce"
preview | full record— Lucretius Carus, Titus (94 B.C.- ca. 49 B.C.); Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1727
"The first Attempt in this Philosophy is, to Clear the Mind of any Innate Ideas or Principles, and to make it a Rasa Tabula, or to Resemble a Piece of Blank Paper, without any Original Characters, or Inscriptions, Engraved upon it;"
preview | full record— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)
Date: 1727
"For, Moreover, if the Mind was a mere Rasa Tabula, if it was only a Plain Piece of Paper to Write on, what Difference could there Possibly be in Fact in One Man's Understanding, and Another's?"
preview | full record— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)
Date: 1727
"The Characters Engraven on each, would be much the same, Deriv'd from those Sensations, which are Common to all; since according to this Philosophy, what is Originally Writ upon our Minds, is from our Conversation with External Objects, and then Reflecting upon the Operations of the Faculties an...
preview | full record— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)
Date: 1727
If "the Ground-work of all was nothing else that a Rasa Tabula and the Pencils Employed to Embellish it, were no other than our Senses, which are the same in most, and the Paintings and Portraitures made upon it, the [end page 602] Constant and Unvaried Objects of Nature, and Ideot, according to ...
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Date: 1727
If "the Ground-work of all was nothing else that a Rasa Tabula and the Pencils Employed to Embellish it, were no other than our Senses, which are the same in most, and the Paintings and Portraitures made upon it, the [end page 602] Constant and Unvaried Objects of Nature, and Ideot, according to ...
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