Date: 1720
"[L]et me imprint upon thy Mind, these my last Words that perhaps thou may'st ever hear from thy affectionate Father: "
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1722, 1725
"I got into an Arbor in the Garden, to peruse the dear Contents, which I very well remember, and are too deeply engraven in my Mind, ever to be forgotten."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1723, 1725
"AS Tapers languish at th' Approach of Day," and as the "Book of Fame" may be "Eraz'd and blotted," "So fully o'er the Soul may a lover's Influence reign, "That not one Rebel-Thought [its] Sway disdains"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1724, 1725
"[H]is Image was too deeply impress'd in her Mind, ever to banish it thence, tho' effac'd and blotted by the Memory of his Crimes"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Let what I have said be written in thy Heart, and keep it ever treasured in thy Mind."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
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...
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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 ...
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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