Date: 1771

"The infant mind at coming to the world, is a meer rasa tabula, destitute of all ideas and materials of reflection."

— Usher, James (1720-1771)

Date: 1771

"It is a charte blanche, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a rasa tabula or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and f...

— Usher, James (1720-1771)

Date: March 5, 1772

"True worth alone can form the charm that binds, / And rivet beauty's chains upon the mind."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1772

"On his worn Pallet, now, view him reclin'd; / Terrifick Visions haunt his tortur'd Mind."

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Date: 1772

"In Reason's Judgement, all would faintly shine, / If not the Lustre of the Soul were thine"

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Date: 1772

Fancy may "mount the rapid Car, / And Judgement hold the Reins"

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Date: 1772

" Thy Patriot worth above all Art, / Shall live, engraven on the Heart"

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Date: 1772

"This, no licentious Rhapsody of Words, / Nor Fancy's Coinage, which my Verse affords;"

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Date: 1772

"A Line, or two, / If writ by you, / Will more Impression make / Upon her Heart, / Than all that I can do."

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Date: 1772

"Consult the Impression in your Breast, / And own, what all Mankind attest."

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)