Date: 1761
"The great Mr. Locke has resembled the infant mind to a rasa tabula, as he expresses it a clean piece of paper, with no inscriptions, tho' susceptible of them."
preview | full record— Stiles, Ezra (1727-1795)
Date: 1791, 1794
"I would endure it all chearfully, could I but once more see my dear, blessed mother, hear her pronounce my pardon, and bless me before I died; but alas! I shall never see her more; she has blotted the ungrateful Charlotte from her remembrance, and I shall sink to the grave loaded with her's and ...
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1791, 1794
"Oh! never, never! whilst I have existence, will the agony of that moment be erased from my memory."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1793
"Such is the natural imbecility of the human mind, it confines us to the immediate scenes in which we are engaged, and as new objects present the past is in a degree erased from recollection."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]