The "Author of our Being, when he breathers into us the Breath of Life, and speaks us into Existence, leaves our Minds a pure <i>Tabula rasa</i> capable of any Impression, and free from all innate Prepossessions in favour of Vice or vicious Habits, but more susceptible from its own nature of virtuous and social Affections"
An Earnest Appeal to Passionate People
2 entries in ESTC (1748).<br>
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<u>An Earnest Appeal to Passionate People: Wherein the Rise, Progress, and Consequences of That Unhappy Disposition of Mind Are Fully Displayed; ... to Which Is Added, an Essay on Envy, Malice, and Detraction</u>, 2nd edition (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1748). 