Date: 1704
"Now I confess I am of Opinion, that the Mind is so far from being a Rasa Tabula, that it is plentifully furnished with all Ideas of Truth, which are the Seeds and Principles of all Knowledge we have, or ever shall have; that we cannot form any one true Notion, but what is founded in some ...
preview | full record— Sherlock, William (1639/40-1707)
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: 1705
"The Soul of Man, before it has received any Impression on it, is compar'd to a Rasa Tabula, by Philosophers, that is, It is as it were, a plain capable of any Impression whatever"
preview | full record— Coward, William (b. 1656/7, d. in or before 1725)
Date: 1705, 1709
"Has She a Bodkin and a Card? / She'll prick her Mind."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1707
"Lest any understand what I have said a few Pages hence as if I wholly denied common Innate Principles, observe, That it is only actual Connate Knowledge that I deny, and in respect to which I say that the Soul is rasa tabula; but I confess a Natural Passive power for the knowing of them a...
preview | full record— Baxter, Richard (1615-1691)
Date: 1707
"There [in a softer mind] shall his sacred spirit dwell, / And deep engrave his law, / And every motion of our souls / To swift obedience draw."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"'O let my Name ingraven stand, / 'Both on thy Heart and on thy Hand."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"The cursed Deed will turn me savage wild, / Blot ev'ry Thought of Nature from my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1710
"But now, my Lord, I am coming to the melancholly Part of fair Agnes's Description, her Mind, 'twas all a Blot, nor had it ever been otherways; she had no Notion of Things, no Discourse, no Memory."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)