"The human soul is so far from being furnished with forms and ideas to perceive all things by, or from being impregnated, I would rather say than printed over, with the seeds of universal knowledge, that we have no ideas till we receive passively the ideas of sensible qualities from without."
Letters or Essays Addressed to Alexander Pope, Esq.
At least 5 entries in ESTC (1754, 1777, 1793).<br>
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See "Letters or Essays Addressed to Alexander Pope, Esq." in the third volume of David Mallet's <u>The Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke</u>, 5 vols. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the Year 1754). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N20935">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T147520">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from the third volume of <u>The Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke</u>, 5 vols. (Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne: 1793). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FoArAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading also in the 1967 reprint of <u>The Works of Lord Bolingbroke</u>, 4 vols. (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844).