Date: 1744
"Read and revere the sacred page; a page / Where triumphs Immortality; a page / Which not the whole creation could produce; / Which not the conflagration shall destroy; / In Nature's ruins not one letter lost: / 'Tis printed in the minds of gods for ever."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1770?
There are "Some, whose blank minds, no spark of mercy knew."
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1773
Materialist philosophers describe "scoring Traces on the Paper Soul, / Blank, shaven white, they fill th' unfurnish'd Pate / With new Idéas, none of them innate."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)