blank tablet
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Nearly a century later, John Locke proclaimed it as self-evident that the infant's mind was a tabula rasa, or blank tablet, waiting to be written upon.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the left at bottom a blank tablet, and near the woman’s left foot a large wing.
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis
On the left, at top, is a blank tablet.
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis
Now, a moral acid, acting upon that blank tablet of the mind, would produce a precisely similar effect.
From A Bride from the Bush by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
Gladys’s resolution was, so far, a blank tablet, not because purpose was absent, but because it was not yet become visible.
From A Bride from the Bush by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
