Man does not have "a power of stamping his best sentiments upon his memory in indelible characters"
— Watts [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan
Date
1755
Metaphor
Man does not have "a power of stamping his best sentiments upon his memory in indelible characters"
Metaphor in Context
What an unspeakable happiness would it be to man engaged in the pursuit of knowledge, if he had but a power of stamping his best sentiments upon his memory in indelible characters
Categories
Provenance
Consulted Johnson's Dictionary after searching "stamp" in HDIS.
Citation
Reading facsimile edition of 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).
Theme
Memory
Date of Entry
04/11/2005
