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Writing::Tabula Rasa

"But this is the great Difficulty, What the Voice and Sense of Nature is; which if it signify any Thing, must signify some Natural and Inbred Knowledge; which is exploded as a ridiculous Conceit by some great and profound Philosophers of our Age; who will allow no Innate Knowledge, but assert the Soul to be a <i>Rasa Tabula</i>, White Paper, whereon nothing is written, but is capable of any Impressions, and must receive all from without: That nothing is in the Understanding, but what enters by the Senses; which is the old Atheistick Hypothesis, which banishes original Mind and Wisdom out of the World, makes the Mind younger than Matter, later than the making of the World, and therefore not the Maker of it"

Sherlock, William (1639&#47;40-1707)

A Discourse Concerning the Happiness of Good Men, and the Punishment of the Wicked, in the Next World.

1704

14 entries in ESTC (1704, 1705, 1713, 1719, 1726, 1735, 1744, 1751, 1753, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1776).<br> <br> Sherlock, William. <u>A Discourse Concerning the Happiness of Good Men, and the Punishment of the Wicked, in the Next World</u>. (London: Printed for W. Rogers, 1704). &lt;<a rhef="http://estc.bl.uk/T79380">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> Also found searching in ECCO: <u>A Discourse Concerning the Happiness of Good Men, and the Punishment of the Wicked, in the Next World, &c.</u>, 6th ed. (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, D. Browne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Clarke, J. Hinton [and 11 others], 1760).

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Now I confess I am of Opinion, that the Mind is so far from being a <i>Rasa Tabula</i>, that it is plentifully furnished with all Ideas of Truth, which are the Seeds and Principles of all Knowledge we have, or ever shall have; that we cannot form any one true Notion, but what is founded in some connate Ideas."

Sherlock, William (1639&#47;40-1707)

A Discourse Concerning the Happiness of Good Men, and the Punishment of the Wicked, in the Next World.

1704

14 entries in ESTC (1704, 1705, 1713, 1719, 1726, 1735, 1744, 1751, 1753, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1776).<br> <br> Sherlock, William. <u>A Discourse Concerning the Happiness of Good Men, and the Punishment of the Wicked, in the Next World</u>. (London: Printed for W. Rogers, 1704). &lt;<a rhef="http://estc.bl.uk/T79380">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> Also found searching in ECCO: <u>A Discourse Concerning the Happiness of Good Men, and the Punishment of the Wicked, in the Next World, &c.</u>, 6th ed. (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, D. Browne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Clarke, J. Hinton [and 11 others], 1760).

Writing::Tabula Rasa

The mind of the hearer might very well be a tabula rasa, free from every prejudice, and like soft wax, susceptible of every impression; and with all this, not yield to truth itself, proposed in the manner it is every day proposed, under the appearance of falsehood."

Batteaux, Charles (1713-1780)

A Course of the Belles Lettres: or the Principles of Literature. Translated from the French of the Abbot Batteux, ... By Mr. Miller.

1761

French text dated 1747-1748. <u>A Course of the Belles Lettres: or the Principles of Literature. Translated from the French of the Abbot Batteux, Professor of Rhetoric in the Royal College of Navarre, at Paris. By Mr. Miller. In Four Volumes.</u> (London: Printed for B. Law and Co. T. Caslon, J. Coote, S. Hooper, G. Kearsly, and A. Morley, 1761). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T92553">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Yea, the Soul herself is radically deprav'd and essentially invenom'd by her Disunion from God, so that she is the Seat of Defilement in the human Composition; even the Soul of an Infant since the lapse of the Protoplasts is no more born as a Tabula rasa, nor is that Saying of an Orator "Homines nec boni neque; mali nascuntur" true; but every Soul is originally disordered and spoil'd."

Hammond, William (1719-1783)

Four Discourses Delivered in England and Wales, in 1757 and 1758

1761

Hammond, William. Four discourses delivered in England and Wales, in 1757 and 1758. London, 1761. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"The great Mr. <i>Locke</i> has resembled the infant mind to a rasa tabula, as he expresses it a clean piece of paper, with no inscriptions, tho' susceptible of them."

Stiles, Ezra (1727-1795)

A discourse on the Christian union: the substance of which was delivered before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode-Island; assembled at Bristol April 23, 1760. By Ezra Stiles, A.M. Pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Newport.

1761

Stiles, Ezra. <u>A discourse on the Christian union: the substance of which was delivered before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode-Island; assembled at Bristol April 23, 1760. By Ezra Stiles, A.M. Pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Newport</u>. [Five lines of quotations]. Boston: N.E., MDCCLXI. [1761]. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Coming, as most boys do, a rasa tabula to the university, and believing (his country education teaching him no better) that all human and divine knowledge was to be had there, he quickly fell into the then prevailing notions of the high and independent powers of the clergy."

Author Unknown

A New and General Biographical Dictionary

1762

Eleven volumes: vols. 7-11 are dated 1762. At least 4 entries in the ESTC (1761, 1767, 1784, 1795, 1798).<br> <br> See <u>A New and General Biographical Dictionary; Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period. Wherein Their Remarkable Actions or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning, Are Accurately Displayed; With a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions.</u> (London: Printed for T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, B. Law, T. Field, T. Durham, J. Robson, R. Goadby, and E. Baker, 1761). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T138965">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Is the beauty of truth, or moral actions, or the deformity of falsehood, or vice, capable of being <i>represented on paper</i>, or on any other plain, except the <i>rasa tabula</i> of the mind?"

Griffith, Richard (d. 1788)

Something New. In two volumes

1762

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Do thou O Tablet, either both, or nothing; either let thy words and sense go together, or be thy bosom a rasa tabula."

Warburton, William (1698-1779)

Note [from The Plays of William Shakespeare]

1765

<u>The Plays of William Shakespeare, in Eight Volumes, With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to Which Are Added Notes by Sam. Johnson</u> (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, C. Corbet, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, 1765).

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"There is the question whether the soul in itself is completely blank like a writing tablet on which nothing has as yet been written--a <i>tabula rasa</i>--as Aristotle and the author of the <i>Essay</i> maintain, and whether everything which is inscribed there comes solely from the senses and experience; or whether the soul inherently contains the sources of various notions and doctrines which external objects merely rouse up on suitable occasions, as I believe and as Plato and even the Schoolmen and all those who understand the sense of the passage in St. Paul where he says that God's law is written in our hearts (<i>Romans</i> 2:15)"

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)

Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain [New Essays on Human Understanding]

1765

Written 1703-1705. Published by R. E. Raspe in 1765. <br> <br> See <u>Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain</u> in <u>Oeuvres Philosophiques</u> (Amsterdam and Leipzig: Jean Schreuder, 1765). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zvZaAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading a modern translation: <u>New Essays on Human Understanding.</u> trans. and ed. by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996).

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"I have also used the analogy of a veined block of marble, as opposed to an entirely homogenous block of marble, or to a blank tablet--what the philosophers call a <i>tabula rasa"</i>

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)

Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain [New Essays on Human Understanding]

1765

Written 1703-1705. Published by R. E. Raspe in 1765. <br> <br> See <u>Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain</u> in <u>Oeuvres Philosophiques</u> (Amsterdam and Leipzig: Jean Schreuder, 1765). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zvZaAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading a modern translation: <u>New Essays on Human Understanding.</u> trans. and ed. by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996).

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Cecil is infinitely desirous that King James, as he favours him, should write the letter of satisfaction concerning 40 by the very next dispatch; for it should seem to me, by secret intimation from Cecil this afternoon, that the party is a little tickle, and like <i>rasa tabula</i>, that is, ready both to receive and to retain the first impression that is settled, and therefore to put his Majesty in mind of the old maxim of our law, <i>Quod nullius est</i>, <i>occupanti conceditur, </i>and <i>in re dubia melior est conditio possidentis."</i>

Howard, Howard, Earl of Northampton (1540-1614)

The secret correspondence of Sir Robert Cecil with James VI. King of Scotland. Now first published.

1766

Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of. <u>The secret correspondence of Sir Robert Cecil with James VI. King of Scotland. Now first published</u>.. Edinburgh, 1766. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"He is now reduced to the greatest want and beggary, he is become a meer tabula rasa, a sheet of blank paper, a page of perfect inanity."

Campbell, Archibald (bap. 1724, d. 1780)

The Sale of Authors, a Dialogue

1767

Archibald Campbell, <u>The Sale of Authors, a Dialogue, in Imitation of Lucian's Sale of Philosophers</u> (London, 1767). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3313567144&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063540804">Link to Hathi Trust</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Vain therefore, and entirely to be rejected, is that <i>Principle</i> published to the World, by a celebrated Philosopher of the last Century, <i>namely</i>, that the Soul in its <i>first created State</i>, has <i>nothing</i> in it, but is a mere <i>Rasa Tabula</i>, or <i>blank Paper</i>."

Law, William (1686-1761)

A Short but Sufficient Confutation of the Rev. Dr. Warburton's Projected Defence (As he calls it) of Christianity in his Divine Legation of Moses. In a Letter to the Right Reverend Lord Bishop of London. [from The works of the Reverend William Law, A.M. In nine volumes]

1769

Law, William. <u>The works of the Reverend William Law, A.M. In nine volumes</u>. Vol. 8. London, 1762 [1780?]. 9 vols. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Of the two great Ordinances of Christianity, Baptism and the LORD's Supper, how does the former imprint upon the <i>rasa Tabula</i> of our infant Minds the most significant Emblems of Purity and Holiness, and lay the strongest Obligations upon us to keep ourselves from those Pollutions which deface the Divine Image and deprave the Dignity of our Nature?"

Crossman, Henry (1711-1792)

An introduction to the belief and practice of the true religion. Designed for young persons, ... In three parts. ... By H. Crossman, M.A.

1769

Crossman, Henry. <u>An introduction to the belief and practice of the true religion. Designed for young persons, ... In three parts. ... By H. Crossman, M.A</u>. London, 1769. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"The learned and ingenious Brown, in his Procedure of the Understanding, observes that 'common sense and Reason, to them who will use them in a plain Way, make it evident that we have no immediate or direct Idea or Perception of Sprit, or any of its Operations, as we have of Body and its Qualities.--That the Mind (or Soul) is at first a mere Tabula Rasa, and that the Maxim of the Logicians is to be taken for a sure and fundamental Truth, Nihil est in Intellectu quod non fuit prius in Sensu.'"

Jackson, W., of Lichfield Close (fl. 1769)

The beauties of nature, displayed in a sentimental ramble through her luxuriant fields; with a retrospective view of her, ... To which is added, a choice collection of thoughts: concluded with poems on various occasions. By W. Jackson

1769

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"That the mind of man, previous to the information of the senses, is a <i>tabula rasa</i>, a blank, without ideas, without knowledge, is a doctrine too well supported by this great master of reason to suffer a shock."

Baker, William (1742-1785)

Peregrinations of the Mind Through the Most General and Interesting Subjects, Which Are Usually Agitated in Life

1770

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1770).<br> <br> <u>Peregrinations of the Mind Through the Most General and Interesting Subjects, Which Are Usually Agitated in Life. By the Rationalist.</u> (London: Printed for G. Pearch, Numb. 12, in Cheapside, 1770). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T92862">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"It is a favourite maxim with Mr LOCKE, as it was with some ancient philosophers, that the human soul, previous to education, is like a piece of white paper, or tabula rasa, and this simile, harmless as it may appear, betrays our great modern into several important mistakes."

Beattie, James (1735-1803)

An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism

1770

10 entries in ESTC (1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1777, 1778).<br> <br> Beattie, James. <u>An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism</u> (Edinburgh: A Kincaid & J. Bell, 1770). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW121716299&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from corrected and enlarged second edition of 1771. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=1ekYAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"For were that mind, what some suppose, a mere <i>tabula rasa</i> upon its first coming into the world, a pure and perfect blank, without one single impression; who can deny that it would be right, that it would be humane and wise, to make, in the earliest moments, those impressions upon it, which long and careful experience hath proved to be just in themselves, and advantageous in their consequences?"

Dodd, William (1729-1777)

Sermons to young men. In three volumes. By William Dodd

1771

Dodd, William. <u>Sermons to young men. In three volumes. By William Dodd</u>, ... Vol. 1. London, 1771. 3 vols. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

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

Usher, James (1720-1771)

An Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind.

1771

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1771).<br> <br> Ussher, James. <u>An Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind. By J. U. Author of Clio</u>. (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1771).

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"<i>Intellect, as has he </i>[Aristotle]<i> had said before, was in </i>CAPACITY, <i>after a certain manner, the several Objects intelligible; but was in </i>ACTUALITY <i>no one of them</i>, <i>until it first comprehended it</i>--<i>and that it was the same with the Mind or </i>HUMAN UNDERSTANDING [in it's original State] <i>as with a </i>RASA TABULA <i>or</i> WRITING TABLET, <i>in which nothing as yet had been </i>ACTUALLY <i>written."</i>

Harris, James (1709-1780)

Philosophical Arrangements by James Harris Esq.

1775

Harris, James. <u>Philosophical arrangements by Iames Harris Esq. London, 1775. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online</u>. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"The mind of man has been by some authors called a <i>tabula rasa</i>, and compared to a sheet of clean paper."

Author Unknown

Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, &c. [2nd ed.]

1778

At least 6 entries in ESTC (1771, 1773, 1775, 1778, 1790, 1797).<br> <br> Text from the 2nd edition: <u>Encyclopædia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, &c. On a Plan Entirely New: By Which, the Different Sciences and Arts Are Digested Into the Form of Distinct Treatises or Systems, Comprehending the History, Theory, and Practice, of Each, According to the Latest Discoveries and Improvements; and Full Explanations Given of the Various Detached Parts of Knowledge, Whether Relating to Natural and Artificial Objects, or to Matters Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, Commercial, &c. Together With a Description of All the Countries, Cities, Principal Mountains, Seas, Rivers, &c. Throughout the World; a General History, Ancient and Modern, of the Different Empires, Kingdoms, and States; and an Account of the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, from the Earliest Ages Down to the Present Times. The Whole Compiled from the Writings of the Best Authors, in Several Languages; the Most Approved Dictionaries, As Well of General Science As of Particular Branches; the Transactions, Journals, and Memoirs, of Learned Societies, Both at Home and Abroad; the MS. Lectures of Eminent Professors on Different Sciences; and a Variety of Original Materials, Furnished by an Extensive Correspondence. The Second Edition; Greatly Improved and Enlarged. Illustrated With Above Two Hundred Copperplates. Vol. I. Indocti Discant, Et Ament Meminisse Periti.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for J. Balfour and Co. W. Gordon, J. Bell, J. Dickson, C. Elliot, W. Creech, J. Mccliesh, A. Bell, J. Hutton, and C. Macfarquhar, 1778). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T145358">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>Encyclop&aelig;dia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Compiled Upon a New Plan. ... Illustrated With One Hundred and Sixty Copperplates. By a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland. In Three Volumes.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar; and sold by Colin Macfarquhar, 1771). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T145357">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature on a Plan Entirely New.</u> (Dublin: Printed by James Moore, 1790-98). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T197400">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> Also <u>Encyclopædia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature; ... The Third Edition, in Eighteen Volumes, Greatly Improved. Illustrated With Five Hundred and Forty-Two Copperplates.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797). [18 vols., vols. 1-12 edited by Colin Macfarquhar; vols. 13-18 by George Geig] &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N6642">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> Compare the American edition (many articles revised or rewritten): <u>Encyclopaedia; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature ... Compiled from the Writings of the Best Authors, in Several Languages ... Illustrated With Five Hundred and Forty-Two Copperplates.</u> The first American edition, in eighteen volumes, greatly improved. (Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, 1798). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/W31873">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"The mind of youth is a kind of <i>tabula rasa</i>;--at first unstained with guilt, and unadorned with virtue."

Rack, Edmund (1735-1787)

Mentor's Letters, Addressed to Youth. By Edmund Rack.

1777

At least 3 entries in ESTC (1777, 1778, 1785).<br> <br> Text from <u>Mentor's Letters, Addressed to Youth. By Edmund Rack. The Third Edition, Revised and Corrected</u> (Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the author; and sold in London by E. and C. Dilly; James Philips; and J. Buckland, 1778). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T61228">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"The mind of youth is a kind of <i>tabula rasa</i>;--at first unstained with guilt, and unadorned with virtue."

Rack, Edmund (1735-1787)

Mentor's Letters, Addressed to Youth. By Edmund Rack.

1777

At least 3 entries in ESTC (1777, 1778, 1785).<br> <br> Text from <u>Mentor's Letters, Addressed to Youth. By Edmund Rack. The Third Edition, Revised and Corrected</u> (Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the author; and sold in London by E. and C. Dilly; James Philips; and J. Buckland, 1778). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T61228">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Not an indifferency to, or equilibrium betwixt right and wrong; for that had been to have a mixed, or no quality, a mere <i>rasa</i> <i>tabula, </i>to be impressed things extrinsical to it, without any understanding and choice of its own: Both which were foreign to the primitive state of man."

Manners, Nicholas

Discourses on the following subjects: I. Man's original state. II. The fall of Adam. ... VII. Election and final perseverance. By Nicholas Manners.

1780

Manners, Nicholas. <u>Discourses on the following subjects: I. Man's original state. II. The fall of Adam. ... VII. Election and final perseverance. By Nicholas Manners</u>. The third edition, improved York, 1780. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"How solidly he establishes, in Opposition to the celebrated Mr. Locke, the Doctrine of Innate Ideas; or that the Soul of Man, is not in its first created State, a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper, but full of divine Sensations, and the Powers, Riches and Glories of Eternity; all treasured up and lying dormant in it."

Anonymous; [L--]

A Serious and Affectionate Address, to All Orders of Men, Adapted to This Awful Crisis

1781

Only 1 entry in the ESTC (1781).<br> <br> <u>A Serious and Affectionate Address, to All Orders of Men, Adapted to This Awful Crisis. in Which Are Earnestly Recommended, the Works of the Late Rev. William Law, ... to Which Are Added Three Letters, Written by Mr. Law, to the Author.</u> (Bath: Printed and sold by S. Hazard: sold also by G. Robinson, London, and T. Mills, Bristol, 1781). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T103900">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"She has given you besides some perspicuity, which qualifies you to distinguish interesting objects; a warmth of imagination which enables you to think with quickness; you often extract useful reflections from objects which presented none to my mind: you have a tender and a well meaning heart, you love description, and your pencil, assure yourself, is not a bad one for the pencil of a farmer; it seems to be held without any labour; your mind is what we called at Yale college a <i>Tabula rasa</i>, where spontaneous and strong impressions are delineated with facility."

St. John de Cr&egrave;vecoeur, J. Hector (1735-1813)

Letters from an American Farmer

1782

5 entries in ESTC (1782, 1783, 1793).<br> <br> See <u>Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs, Not Generally Known.</u> (Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T133102">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Rules for rendering the Mind a <i>tabula rasa</i>, on which the hand of Nature is to write by observation and experiments: and for expelling the <i>prejudices,</i> which have retarded the progress of the useful Sciences and Arts."

Bruce, John (1745-1826)

First principles of philosophy, and their application to the subjects of taste, science, and history. By John Bruce

1785

Bruce, John. <u>First principles of philosophy, and their application to the subjects of taste, science, and history. By John Bruce, ... Third edition, enlarged</u> Edinburgh, 1785. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Her mind, to borrow Mr. Locke's figure, was a mere tabula rasa, a blank as to every thing beyond mortality"

Author Unknown

An Authentic Detail of Particulars Relative to the Late Duchess of Kingston

1788

At least 4 entries in the ESTC (1788, 1790).<br> <br> See <u>An Authentic Detail of Particulars Relative to the Late Duchess of Kingston.</u> A new edition. (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson’s Head, No. 46, Fleet Street, 1788). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T93420">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"According to Mr. Locke, the soul is a mere <i>rasa tabula</i>, an empty recipient, a mechanical blank."

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)

The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus

1788

2 entries in ESTC (1788, 1792).<br> <br> <u>The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus; Surnamed, Plato’s Successor, on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements. And His Life by Marinus. Translated from the Greek. With a Preliminary Dissertation on the Platonic Doctrine of Ideas, &C. by Thomas Taylor.</u> (London: Printed for the author: and sold by T. Payne and Son; B. White and Son; L. Davis; J. Robson; T. Cadell; Leigh and Co. G. Nicol; R. Faulder; and T. and J. Egerton, 1788-89). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T143303">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"I conceive that a newly created spiritual substance would be a perfect <i>tabula rasa</i>, without a single idea till it was supplied by its own experience and reflection; nor can I understand how matter, <i>mere </i>matter, unconnected with a really active substance, could begin to perceive or reflect at all."

Holmes, Edward (1737&#47;8-1799)

An attempt to prove the materiality of the soul, by reason and scripture. With an appendix, shewing the influence of this opinion upon the faith and practice of Christians. By the Rev. Edward Holmes

1789

Holmes, Edward. <u>An attempt to prove the materiality of the soul, by reason and scripture. With an appendix, shewing the influence of this opinion upon the faith and practice of Christians. By the Rev. Edward Holmes</u>, ... Newcastle, 1789. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"The mind is not a <i>rasa tabula</i>, though, at the same time, it must be allowed, we gain no actual knowledge of the latent ideas which it possesses, but as they are awakened by reflection and experience."

Sullivan, Richard Joseph, Sir (1752-1806)

A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps. With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France.

1794

Sulivan, Richard Joseph, Sie. <u>A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps. With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France. By Richard Joseph Sulivan.</u> 6 vols. (London: Printed for T. Becket, 1794).

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"The <i>rasa tabula</i> will not allow us to have mental ideas."

Sullivan, Richard Joseph, Sir (1752-1806)

A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps. With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France.

1794

Sulivan, Richard Joseph, Sie. <u>A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps. With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France. By Richard Joseph Sulivan.</u> 6 vols. (London: Printed for T. Becket, 1794).

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"A soft sponginess of character that will easily acquire any hue, or any stain; a tabula rasa of intellect; a spirit invulnerable to insult; that (for example) after vain endeavors to disunite and discourage the Catholics of Ireland, could condescend to [end page 2] truck and chaffer, for the official transmission of their address; and then submit to be passed by with a contemptuous neglect, equally degrading to the honour of the man, and the dignity of the station:--such are the qualities best suited to complete the lustrum of an Irish Lord Lieutenancy."

Drennan, William (1754-1820)

A letter to His Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam, lord lieutenant, &c. of Ireland

1795

Drennan, William. <u>A letter to His Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam, lord lieutenant, &c. of Ireland</u>. London, 1795. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"The infant mind has been compared to a tabula rasa, or sheet of clean paper: but there is this essential difference, as hath been well observed, between the opposite objects of comparison they are not both equally Indifferent to the inscription which they are to bear."

Napleton, John (1738&#47;9-1817)

Advice to a student in the university, concerning the qualifications and duties of a minister of the Gospel in the Church of England. By John Napleton

1795

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"He guarded my mind from imbibing any religious principles at all, under the notion of preserving it to maturity, like a rasa tabula, free from all prejudices."

Anonymous

Berkeley Hall: or, the Pupil of Experience. A Novel

1796

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1796).<br> <br> <u>Berkeley Hall: or, the Pupil of Experience. A Novel. In Three Volumes.</u> 3 vols. (London: Printed for J. Tindal, Great Portland Street, Oxford Street, 1796). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N15614">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"<i>Tabula rasa.</i> Lat.--'A shaved or smoothed tablet.'--His mind is a <i>tabula rasa</i>--it is a mere blank."

MacDonnel, David Evans (fl. 1797)

A Dictionary of Quotations

1797

Macdonnel, David Evans. <u>A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use. Taken from the Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian Languages; Translated Into English. With Illustrations Historical and Idiomatic </u> (London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797).

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"There is none comes to the school of Christ suiting the philosopher's word <i>ut tabula rasa</i>, as blank paper, to receive his doctrine; but, on the contrary, all scribbled and blurred with such base habits as these, <i>malice</i>, <i>hypocrisy</i>, <i>envy, </i>&c."

Leighton, Robert (1611-1684)

The expository works, with other remains, (some of which were never before printed), of Robert Leighton, ... In two volumes

1798

Leighton, Robert. <u>The expository works, with other remains, (some of which were never before printed), of Robert Leighton, ... In two volumes</u>. Vol. 1. Edinburgh, 1798. 2 vols. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"If the human mind be a <i>rasa tabula</i>,--you to whom it is entrusted, should be cautious what is written upon it."

Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Cobwebs to Catch Flies: or, Dialogues in Short Sentences

1783

Fenn, Ellenor. <u>Cobwebs to Catch Flies: or, Dialogues in Short Sentences, Adapted to Children from the Age of Three to Eight Years.</u> 2 vols. (London : Printed and Sold by John Marshall and Co. No.4, Aldermary Church Yard in Bow Lane, 1783). Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/retrieve.do?resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSet=ECCOArticles&doDirectDocNumSearch=false&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28PB%2CNone%2C13%29John+Marshall%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28BA%2CNone%2C60%290LRH+Or+0LRL+Or+0LRI+Or+0LRK+Or+0LRF+Or+0LRJ+Or+0LRN+Or+0LRM%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28da%2CNone%2C9%291780-1800%24&inPS=true&sort=DateAscend&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&searchId=R1&currentPosition=14&userGroupName=viva_uva&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&showLOI=&bookId=1219900101&collectionId=T073091&relevancePageBatch=CW117078924">Link to Vol. I</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/retrieve.do?resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSet=ECCOArticles&doDirectDocNumSearch=false&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28PB%2CNone%2C13%29John+Marshall%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28BA%2CNone%2C60%290LRH+Or+0LRL+Or+0LRI+Or+0LRK+Or+0LRF+Or+0LRJ+Or+0LRN+Or+0LRM%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28da%2CNone%2C9%291780-1800%24&inPS=true&sort=DateAscend&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&searchId=R1&currentPosition=14&userGroupName=viva_uva&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&bookId=1219900102&collectionId=&retrieveOtherVolume=true">Link to Vol. II</a>&gt;

Writing::Tabula Rasa

"Having thus cleaned and polish'd the Soul, it becomes a pure Tabula Rasa, fit for the best or worst Impressions."

Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]

General Preface [from The First Volume of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy]

1723

Based on a 30-letter Italian original, <u>L'esploratore turco</u> (1684), by Giovannia Paolo Marana (1642-1693), <u>L'espion turc</u> was published in French in 1684; <u>The Turkish Spy</u>, in English in 1687. Multiple entries in the ESTC. Sixth edition in 1694, 19th edition in 1718, 25th in 1753. After the success of the first volume, the work was expanded to 632 letters and published in eight volumes, attributed to various authors in 1696-97. <br> <br> Text from <u>The First Volume of Letters writ by a Turkish Spy, Who lived five and forty years, undiscover'd at Paris: Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan, at Constantinople, of the most Remarkable Transactions of Europe; And discovering several Intrigues and secrets of the Christian Courts (especially of that of France.) From the Year 1637, to the Year 1682. Written Originaly in Arabick, First Translated into Italian, afterwards into French, and now into English</u>. 20th ed. Vol. 1. (London: Printed for J. Rhodes, D. Brown, R. Sare, B. and S. Tooke, G. Strahan, W. Mears, S. Ballard, and F. Clay, 1723).

Writing::Tempest

"Thus a Tempest at Sea is often an Emblem of Wrath"

Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)

An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

1725

Hutcheson, Francis. <u>An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue</u>. Ed. Wolfgang Leidhold. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004.

Writing::Traces

"So for Instance, in Children; they perceive and forget a hundred Things in an Hour; the Brain is so soft that it receives immediately all Impressions like Water or liquid Mud, and retains scarce any of them: All the Traces, Forms or Images which are drawn there, are immediately effaced or closed up again, as though you wrote with your Finger on the Surface of a River or on a Vessel of Oil."

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

The Improvement of the Mind

1741

32 entries in ESTC (1741, 1743, 1753, 1754, 1761, 1768, 1773, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> Most text drawn from Google Books. See <u>The Improvement of the Mind: or, a Supplement to the Art of Logick: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of Useful Knowledge, in Religion, in the Sciences, and in Common Life. By I. Watts, D.D.</u> (London: Printed for James Brackstone, at the Globe in Cornhill, 1741). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T82959">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LMwAAAAAcAAJ">Link to 2nd edition in Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br>

Writing::Tracing

"Tous les devoirs de la loi naturelle, presque effacés de mon coeur par l’injustice des hommes, s’y retracent au nom de l’éternelle justice qui me les impose & qui me les voit remplir plus en moi que l’ouvrage & l’instrument du veut le bien, qui le fait, qui fera le mien par mes volontés aux siennes & par le bon usage, de ma liberté."

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

&Eacute;mile ou de l'&Eacute;ducation [Emilius and Sophia: or, a New System of Education]

1762

Over 20 entries in ESTC (1762, 1763, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1773, 1774, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1799).<br> <br> See William Kenrick's translation: <u>Emilius and Sophia: or, a New System of Education. Translated from the French of J. J. Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva. By the translator of Eloisa</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for R. Griffiths, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3305401367&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; <br> <br> Reading in Jean-Jacques Rousseau. <u>&Eacute;mile</u>, trans. Barbara Foxley (London: J.M. Dent, 1993).<br> <br> French text from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, <u>Collection complète des oeuvres</u>, 17 vols (Genève, 1780-1788). &lt;<a href="http://www.rousseauonline.ch/home.php">Rousseau Online</a>&gt;

Writing::Tracing

"Cette doctrine, venant de Dieu, doit porter le sacré caractère de la Divinité; non seulement elle doit nous éclaircir les idées confuses que le raisonnement en trace dans notre esprit, mais elle doit aussi nous proposer un culte, une morale & des maximes convenables aux attributs par lesquels seuls nous concevons son essence."

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

&Eacute;mile ou de l'&Eacute;ducation [Emilius and Sophia: or, a New System of Education]

1762

Over 20 entries in ESTC (1762, 1763, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1773, 1774, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1799).<br> <br> See William Kenrick's translation: <u>Emilius and Sophia: or, a New System of Education. Translated from the French of J. J. Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva. By the translator of Eloisa</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for R. Griffiths, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3305401367&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; <br> <br> Reading in Jean-Jacques Rousseau. <u>&Eacute;mile</u>, trans. Barbara Foxley (London: J.M. Dent, 1993).<br> <br> French text from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, <u>Collection complète des oeuvres</u>, 17 vols (Genève, 1780-1788). &lt;<a href="http://www.rousseauonline.ch/home.php">Rousseau Online</a>&gt;

Writing::Transcribing

"And here the Mind receives a great deal of Satisfaction, and has two of its Faculties gratified at the same time, while the Fancy is busy in copying after the Understanding, and transcribing Ideas out of the Intellectual World into the Material."

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Spectator, No. 421 [Pleasures of the Imagination]

1712

Addison, Joseph, and Richard Steele. <u>Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator</u>. Ed. Robert J. Allen. Second ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1970.

Writing::Transcript

"The man, whose life's a transcript of his heart; / Acts both a selfish, and a gen'rous part; / Above the bait of honour and of pelf, / He cheats no mortal, nor deceives himself."

Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

An Elegy on the Cutting Down of an Oak. in Three Parts. [from Original Poems on Several Subjects]

1765

At least 2 entries in ESTC (1765).<br> <br> <u>Original Poems on Several Subjects. In Two Volumes. By William Stevenson</u> (Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid. Sold by Alexander Donaldson, in London and Edinburgh, 1765). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T155132">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Transcript

"The man, whose life's a transcript of his heart; / Acts both a selfish, and a gen'rous part; / Above the bait of honour and of pelf, / He cheats no mortal, nor deceives himself."

Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

An Elegy on the Cutting Down of an Oak. in Three Parts. [from Original Poems on Several Subjects]

1765

At least 2 entries in ESTC (1765).<br> <br> <u>Original Poems on Several Subjects. In Two Volumes. By William Stevenson</u> (Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid. Sold by Alexander Donaldson, in London and Edinburgh, 1765). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T155132">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Transcript

A people may receive the "transcript of the eternal mind"

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Expostulation [from Poems]

1782

At least 23 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14895">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792651.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IMcNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Works of William Cowper</u> (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-1837).<br> <br> Reading <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>, 3 vols. ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), I, pp. 297-316.

Writing::Transcript

A people may receive the "transcript of the eternal mind"

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Expostulation [from Poems]

1782

At least 23 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14895">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792651.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IMcNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Works of William Cowper</u> (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-1837).<br> <br> Reading <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>, 3 vols. ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), I, pp. 297-316.

Writing::Transcript

"Gone, tho' she is, she left her soul behind, / In four dear transcripts of her copy'd mind."

Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Alone, in an Inn, (at Southampton.) [from The Works]

1753

2 entries in ESTC (1753, 1754).<br> <br> Text from <u>The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; in Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, and of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With an Essay on the Art of Acting</u>. (London: Printed for the benefit of the family, 1753). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T107059">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=lFAJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Writing::Transcript

"Aristotle tells us that the World is a Copy or Transcript of those Ideas which are in the Mind of the first Being, and that those Ideas, which are in the Mind of Man, are a Transcript of the World: To this we may add, that Words are the Transcript of those Ideas which are in the Mind of Man, and that Writing or Printing are the Transcript of words."

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Spectator, No. 166

1711

See Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965).

Writing::Transcript

"'Could History man's secret heart reveal, / 'And what imports a heaven-born mind to learn, / 'Her transcripts to explore what bosom would not yearn!"

Beattie, James (1735-1803)

The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius. A Poem.

1771

Over 20 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1771, 1772, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1779, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1797, 1799, 1800). Collected in <u>The Muse's Pocket Companion</u>, <u>The Bouquet, A Selection of Poems</u>, and <u>A Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry</u>.<br> <br> "Book The First" printed anonymously in 1771; reprinted in 1772, 1774, etc. The second book was first printed in 1774. See David Radcliffe's <a href="http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&textsid=34808">Spenser and the Tradition</a>.<br> <br> See <u>The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius. A Poem. Book the First.</u> (London: Printed for E. & C. Dilly, in the Poultry, and for A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1771). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T39397">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>Poems on Several Occasions, by James Beattie, LL. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech, 1776). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T138978">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::Transcription

"The understanding, it is true, may keep us from going out of drawing when we group our thoughts, or transcribe from the imagination and warm sketches of fancy; but the animal spirits, the individual character, give the colouring."

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

1792

7 entries in ESTC (1792, 1793, 1794, 1796).<br> <br> See <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. by Mary Wollstonecraft.</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, No 72, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004903441.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading Wollstonecraft, M. <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</u>, Modern Library (New York: Random House, 2001). Also <u>The Vindications</u>, eds. D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2001). <br> <br> See also Mary Wollstonecraft, <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects</u> (London: J. Johnson, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/126">Link to OLL</a>&gt;

Writing::Treasury

"'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'"

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Amelia

1752

13 entries in ESTC (1752, 1762, 1771, 1775, 1777, 1780, 1790, 1793).<br> <br> See <u>Amelia. By Henry Fielding</u>, 4 vols. (London: A. Millar, 1752). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3309679839&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading Henry Fielding, <u>Amelia</u>, ed. David Blewett (London: Penguin Books, 1987).

Writing::Verse

"Smooth like her verse her passions learned to move, / And her whole soul was harmony and love."

Barbauld, Anna Letitia [n&eacute;e Aikin] (1743-1825)

Verses on Mrs. Rowe

1773

At least 10 entries in ESTC (1773, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1792).<br> <br> Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825. See <u>Poems</u> (London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1773). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T74944">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796832.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Some text drawn from <u>The Works of Anna L&aelig;titia Barbauld. With a Memoir by Lucy Aikin</u> (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green, 1825).<br> <br> Reading McCarthy, William and Kraft, Elizabeth, eds. <u>Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose</u> (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002).

Writing::Volume

"Ere Vice the spotless Paper foul, / Imprint the Volume of the Soul / With Vertue's noble Mark!"

Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Hints To A Schoolmaster.

1741

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1741).<br> <br> <u>Hints To A Schoolmaster. Address'd To Rev.d Dr. Turnbull. By Stephen Duck</u> (London: Printed for J. Roberts; and R. Dodsley, 1741). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N628">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004786760.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Writing::Volume

"Not all the volumes on thy shelf, / Are worth that single volume, Self."

Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)

Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds [3rd edition]

1752

20 entries in ESTC (1752, 1753, 1755, 1760, 1767, 1771, 1776, 1781, 1782, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1794, 1798).<br> <br> Text from <u>Various Pieces in Verse and Prose</u>, 2 vols. (London: J. Dodsley, 1791). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zXT3KLT74J4C">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text confirmed in Nathaniel Cotton, <u>Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds</u>, 3rd ed. rev. (London: R. Dodsley and M. Cooper, 1752). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3313182037&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to EECO</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>Visions in Verse: For the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds. A New Edition. </u>(London: J. Dodsley, 1790). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=V6oDAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> The revised and enlarged 3rd edition adds a new, ninth vision: "Death. Vision the Last"

Writing::Volume

"But the Dean did not know what sort of a Memory I had, when he entrusted me with his Verse: I had no occasion for any other copy, than what I had registered in the Book and Volume of my Brain."

Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)

The Memoirs of Mrs. Lætitia Pilkington

1748

Laetitia Pilkington, <u>The Memoirs of Mrs. Lætitia Pilkington</u>, 2 vols. (Dublin: Printed for the Author, 1748). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW103412446&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Writing::Volume

"Explore the dark recesses of the mind, / In the Soul's honest volume read mankind, / And own, in wise and simple, great and small, / The same grand leading Principle in All."

Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

The Conference: A Poem

1763

4 entries in ESTC (1763, 1764, 1765)<br> <br> <u>The Conference: A Poem. By C. Churchill.</u> (London: Printed for G. Kearsly; J. Coote; W. Flexney; C. Henderson; J. Gardiner; and J. Almon, 1763). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004793327.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Writing::Volume

"Till mighty conscience, whose prevailing call / Opes the dread volume of her laws to all."

Wodhull, Michael (1740–1816)

The Equality of Mankind. A Poem.

1765

ECCO and ESTC (1765, 1772, 1775, 1798, 1799).<br> <br> See <u>The Equality of Mankind. A Poem. By Mr. Wodhull.</u> (Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson: sold by T. Beckett, and P. A. de Hondt, in the Strand; and T. Payne, at the Meuse-Gate, London, 1765)<br> <br> Text from <u>A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes. by Several Hands</u> (London: Printed for G. Pearch, 1770). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004876766.0001.004">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Writing::Volumes

"Life's records rise on ev'ry side, / And Conscience spreads those volumes wide; / Which faithful registers were brought / By pale-ey'd Fear and busy Thought. / Those faults which artful men conceal, / Stand here engrav'd with pen of steel, / By Conscience, that impartial scribe!"

Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)

Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds [3rd edition]

1752

20 entries in ESTC (1752, 1753, 1755, 1760, 1767, 1771, 1776, 1781, 1782, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1794, 1798).<br> <br> Text from <u>Various Pieces in Verse and Prose</u>, 2 vols. (London: J. Dodsley, 1791). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zXT3KLT74J4C">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text confirmed in Nathaniel Cotton, <u>Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds</u>, 3rd ed. rev. (London: R. Dodsley and M. Cooper, 1752). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3313182037&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to EECO</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>Visions in Verse: For the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds. A New Edition. </u>(London: J. Dodsley, 1790). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=V6oDAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> The revised and enlarged 3rd edition adds a new, ninth vision: "Death. Vision the Last"

Writing::Wax

One may be " In State most desponding, by the Light of a Taper, / With Thoughts dull and dark as my Wax, or my Paper"

Tickell, Thomas (1685-1740)

No. 56 To the Duke of Devonshire [from Tickell's Poems]

1738

"To the Duke of Devonshire, The Petition of John Ward" <u>The Gentleman's Magazine</u> Vol. 8, p. 9. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=e0kDAAAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Writing::Wax

Children are at a time in their life "when, like Wax, their tender Minds may be moulded into what Shape they please"

Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded.

1740

Over 53 entries in ESTC (1740, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1746, 1754, 1762, 1767, 1771, 1772, 1775, 1776, 1785, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799). [Richardson published third and fourth volumes in 1741.]<br> <br> First edition published in two volumes on 6 November, 1740--dated 1741 on the title page. Volumes 3 and 4 were published in December 7, 1741 (this sequel is sometimes called <u>Pamela in her Exalted Condition</u>).<br> <br> See Samuel Richardson, <u>Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel, to Her Parents: Now First Published in Order to Cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative Which Has Its Foundation in Truth and Nature: and at the Same Time That It Agreeably Entertains, by a Variety of Curious and Affecting Incidents, Is Intirely Divested of All Those Images, Which, in Too Many Pieces Calculated for Amusement Only, Tend to Inflame the Minds They Should Instruct</u> (London: C. Rivington and J. Robinson, 1740). [Title page says 1741] &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T111392">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112764551&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004873068.0001.001">Link to first vol. of 3rd edition in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. in a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents: and Afterwards, in Her Exalted Condition, Between Her, and Persons of Figure and Quality, Upon the Most Important and Entertaining Subjects, in Genteel Life. the Third and Fourth Volumes. Publish’d in Order to Cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. by the Editor of the Two First.</u> (London: Printed for S. Richardson: and sold by C. Rivington, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and J. Osborn, in Pater-Noster Row, [1742] [1741]). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T111391">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> All searching was originally done in Chadwyck Healey's eighteenth-century prose fiction database through Stanford's HDIS interface. Chadwyck-Healey contains electronic texts of the original editions (1740-1741) and the 6th edition (1742).

Writing::Wax and Paper

Hearts may scarce yield to impression while "The daughter's can soften and melt"

Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)

ON A PRESENT to the AUTHOR OF TWO IMPRESSIONS FROM A Fine Antique Seal of the Head of ALEXANDER; The one by Lady P---, on Paper; The other by Miss J--- P---, in Wax. [from Poems on several occasions. By the late Edward Lovibond]

1785

Writing::Wax::Wax Seal

"If the organs of perception, like wax overhardened with cold, will not receive the impression of the seal; or, like wax of a temper too soft, will not hold it."

Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Seal [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]

1755

Johnson, Samuel. <u>A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar</u>. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.

Writing::White Paper

"And as the Mind in Infants, is like a white Sheet of Paper, where nothing is written; or like a tender Twig, which may be bent every Way; it is evident, that either Virtue or Vice may be planted in it."

Guazzo, Stefano (1530-1593)

The Art of Conversation. In Three Parts.

1738

At least 4 entries in ESTC (1581, 1586, 1607, 1738).<br> <br> Guazzo, Stefano. <u>The Art of Conversation. In Three Parts. I. The Use and Benefit of Conversation in General, With Instructions to Distinguish Good Company from Bad. The Noxious Nature of Solitude, With the Evils and Mischiefs That Generally Attend It. II. Rules of Behaviour in Company Abroad, Adapted to All Ranks and Degrees of Persons; Also the Conduct and Carriage to Be Observed Between Princes and Private Persons, Noblemen and Gentlemen, Scholars and Mechanicks, Natives and Strangers, Learned and Illiterate, Religious and Secular, Men and Women. III. Directions for the Right Ordering of Conversation at Home, Between Husband and Wife, Father and Son, Mother and Daughter, Brother and Brother, Master and Servant. Interspers'd With Many Foreign Proverbs and Pleasant Stories. The Whole Fitted to Divert, Instruct, and Entertain Persons of Every Taste, Quality, and Circumstance in Life. Written Originally in Italian, by M. Stephen Guazzo. Translated Formerly Into French, and Now Into English.</u> (London: Printed for J. Brett, at the Golden Ball, opposite St. Clement’s Church in the Strand, 1738). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T109491">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Writing::White Paper

"[F]or 'tis a known Observation, that a young Mind is like a white Sheet of Paper, on which may be inscribed the most beautiful Images, as well as the ugliest Deformities."

Anonymous

Remarkable Trials and Interesting Memoirs, of the Most Noted Criminals

1765

<u>Remarkable Trials and Interesting Memoirs, of the Most Noted Criminals, Who Have Been Convicted at the Assizes, the King's-Bench Bar, Guildhall, &C. ... from the Year 1740, To 1764.</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for W. Nicoll, 1765). Vol 1 of 2.

Writing::White Paper

"The wise philosopher tells us, that the soul of man is <i>rasa tabula</i>, like a white sheet of paper, out of which it must be more than common art to erase the first impressions"

Grose, John (bap. 1758, d. 1821)

Ethics, Rational and Theological, With Cursory Reflections on the General Principles of Deism

1782

Grose, John. <u>Ethics, Rational and Theological, With Cursory Reflections on the General Principles of Deism. By John Grose</u>. (London: Printed for the Author, by I. Moore, 1782).

Writing::White Paper

Children's "minds, like a sheet of white paper, are susceptible to every impression"

Godwin, William (1756-1836)

An account of the seminary that will be opened on Monday the fourth day of August, at Epsom in Surrey, for the instruction of twelve pupils in the Greek, Latin, French, and English languages.

1783

Godwin, William. <u>An account of the seminary that will be opened on Monday the fourth day of August, at Epsom in Surrey, for the instruction of twelve pupils in the Greek, Latin, French, and English languages</u>. London, 1783. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::White Paper

"Therefore I take the mind or soul of men to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all impressions, as a rasa tabula, or white paper, &c."

Morell, Thomas (1703-1784)

Notes and annotations on Locke on the human understanding, written by order of the Queen; corresponding in section and page with the edition of 1793. By Thomas Morel

1794

See also Thoemmes reprint of 1991. ECCO: Morell, Thomas. <u>Notes and annotations on Locke on the human understanding, written by order of the Queen; corresponding in section and page with the edition of 1793. By Thomas Morell</u>, ... London, 1794. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::White Paper

"Their [young persons'] minds are like a sheet of white paper, which takes any impression that it is proposed to make upon it."

Godwin, William (1756-1836)

The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays. by William Godwin.

1797

Writing::White Paper

"You are juvenile, and like unto a white sheet of paper, on which vice or righteousness may be impressed."

Anonymous

Charles Dacres: or, the voluntary exile. An historical novel, founded on facts. In two volumes, ...

1797

<u>Charles Dacres: or, the voluntary exile. An historical novel, founded on facts. In two volumes</u>, ... Vol. 1. Edinburgh, 1797. 2 vols. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

Writing::Wiping Away

"My Lord, my present concern <!--Page 245--> is of a very different nature; and I do assure and protest to your Lordship that no time nor intreaties nor persuasion will erase and obliterate and wipe away from my mind, the injury and prejudice the parties have done me, by thus."

Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)

Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle

1788

At least 6 entries in ESTC (1788, 1789, 1799).<br> <br> <u>Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle. By Charlotte Smith</u>, 4 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1788). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3310675510&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Writing::Writing Upon

"May God write it upon all your hearts!"

Wesley, John (1703-1791)

The Danger of Riches [from the Arminian Magazine]

1781

Wesley, John. <u>Selections from the Writings of Rev. John Wesley, M. A</u>. Ed. Herbert Welch. New York and Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1918

Writing::Writs

"A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, while the Judge gives diff'rent Journeys / To Country Counsel, and Attornies; / He on the Bench in quiet sits, / Deciding, as They bring the Writs."

Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind.

1718

Searching in ECCO and ESTC (1718, 1720, 1721, 1725, 1728, 1733, 1734, 1741, 1751, 1754, 1755, 1759, 1768, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1771, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1784, 1790, 1798). See also Prior's <u>Poetical Works</u> (1777, 1779, 1784, 1798). Found in <u>A Collection of English Poets</u>, vol. 10 (1776), <u>The British Poets</u>, vol. 18 (1778), and <u>The Works of the English Poets</u> (1779, 1790). I haven't yet been able to confirm that <u>Alma</u> is in 2 vol. <u>Poems</u> of 1755, 1766, 1767 (texts not available in ECCO).<br> <br> See Prior's <u>Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos</u> published in <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u> (London: Printed for J. Tonson and J. Barber, 1718). &lt<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3311476283&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Searching text from <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u>, ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1905). Reading <u>The Literary Works of Matthew Prior</u>, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. 2nd Edition (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1971).