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