"It is a <i>charte blanche</i>, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a <i>rasa tabula</i> or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and frost in every degree pleasing and [sufferable?]; that compassion and gratitude are base; treachery, falshood, and envy noble; and that contempt is indifferent to us: Yet no human art or industry are able to make those impression on the mind."
An Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind.
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1771).<br>
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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). 