Date: 1744
"That philosopher [Aristotle] held that the mind of man was a tabula rasa, and that there were no innate ideas."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1744
"And notwithstanding the tabula rasa of Aristotle, yet some of his followers have undertaken to make him speak Plato's sense."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1744
"As the body is said to clothe the soul, so the nerves may be said to constitute her inner garment."
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Date: 1746, 1749
"Such Rancour this, of such a poisonous Vein, / As never, never, shall my Paper stain: / Much less infect my Heart"
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1746, 1749
"For the hurt Eye an instant Cure you find; Then why neglect, for Years, the sickening Mind?"
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1746, 1749
"For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul."
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Date: 1747
"With such goodness is our nature constituted, so gentle is the reign of virtue, that it restrains not its subjects from that enjoyment of bodily pleasures, which upon a right estimate will be found the sweetest: altho’ this she demands, that we should still preserve so lively a sense of the supe...
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Date: 1747
"But on the other hand under the empire of sensuality there's no admittance for the virtues; all the nobler joys from a conscious goodness, a sense of virtue, and deserving well of others, must be banished; and generally along with them even the rational manly pleasures of the ingenious arts."
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Date: 1748
The sorrowing soul is tempestuous
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)