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
There is no sense or utility in exhibiting a blank tablet, and I have seen without scruple or remorse such superannuated vestiges employed in repairing the church fabric.
From In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent
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 E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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 Francis Douce
The intellect should not be compared to a blank tablet, but to a block of marble in whose veins the outlines of the statue are prefigured.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
