Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Stamp [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]

London

Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]

1755

A stamp may be settled deep into the mind

Ideas are imprinted on the memory; some by an object affecting the senses only; others, that have more than once offered themselves, have yet little taken notice of; the mind, intent only on one thing, not settling the stamp deep into itself.

Writing::Stamp

Reading Johnson's and Bailey's dictionaries

Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.

03/10/2005