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Date: 1699
"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair unwritten blank remain'd."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1699
"Reason has little now to do but prove / That some most perfect Being rules above, / And this by little Inference we find: / 'Tis plain; 'tis bright, 'tis written on the Mind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1770
"It is a favourite maxim with Mr LOCKE, as it was with some ancient philosophers, that the human soul, previous to education, is like a piece of white paper, or tabula rasa, and this simile, harmless as it may appear, betrays our great modern into several important mistakes."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
