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Date: 1800
"The great Mr. Locke, and several other ingenious philosophers, have represented the human intellect, antecedent to its intercourse with external objects, as a tabula rasa, or a substance capable of receiving any impressions, but upon which no original impressions of any kind are stamped."
preview | full record— Smellie, William (1740-1795)
Date: 1869
One's immortal deeds may be "Engrav'd ... / On ev'ry heart in this braid land"
preview | full record— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)
Date: 1869
On a tree's "fair stem were mony names, which now nae mair I see, / But they're engraven on my heart--forgot they ne'er can be!"
preview | full record— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)
