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Date: w 1710, 1720
"Whilst like the Lamp's last Flame, their trembling Souls / Are on the Wing to leave their mortal Goals."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: w. April 18, 1776; 1777
"Even my love of literary fame, my ruling passion, never soured my temper, notwithstanding my frequent disappointments."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
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)
