Date: 1728

"At our Birth the Imagination is intirely a Tabula Rasa or perfect Blank, without any other Materials either for a Simple View or any Other Operation of the Intellect"

— Browne, Peter (d. 1735)

Date: 1728

"With respect to the simple Perception of Mere Sense he is still upon the same Level with Brutes; he is altogether Passive; he retains all the Signatures and Impressions of outward Objects, but in the very Order only in which they are stamped; with Transposing or Altering, Dividing, or Compoundin...

— Browne, Peter (d. 1735)

Date: 1728

It is by the senses that "the Ideas of external sensible Objects are first conveyed into the Imagination; and Reason or the pure Intellect ... operates upon those Ideas, and upon them, Only after they are so lodged in that common Receptacle"

— Browne, Peter (d. 1735)

Date: 1728

"I must have Women. There is nothing unbends the Mind like them."

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1728

"If Love the Virgin's Heart invade, / How, like a Moth, the simple Maid / Still plays about the Flame!"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1728

"Though my Heart were as frozen as Ice, / At his Flame 'twould have melted away."

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1728

"My Heart was so free, / It rov'd like the Bee, / 'Till Polly my Passion requited."

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1729

"To Coin, like Man, a little Ape, / 'Gainst Heaven is High-Treason"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1732

"Neither birth, nor books, nor conversation, can introduce a knowledge of the world into a conceited mind, which will ever be its own object, and contemplate mankind in its own mirror!"

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

Date: 1732

"You must know, said he, that the mind of man may be fitly compared to a piece of land. What stubbing, ploughing, digging, and harrowing is to the one, that thinking, reflecting, examining is to the other."

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)