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
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 Falckenberg, Richard
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
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 Vincent, W.T. (William Thomas)
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)
