Date: 1759
"The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"From their children, if they have less to fear, they have less also to hope, and they lose, without equivalent the joys of early love and the convenience of uniting with manners pliant, and minds susceptible of new impressions, which might wear away their dissimilitudes by long cohabitation, as ...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: September 1, 1759.
" Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away, and which new images are striving to obliterate."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: December 29, 1759
"In childhood, while our minds are yet unoccupied, religion is impressed upon them, and the first years of almost all who have been well educated are passed in a regular discharge of the duties of piety."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1761
"But Heaven that gave a blessing to our bed, / Stampt the great Law of Nature on my heart, / And bound me to it by the sacred ties / Of fatherly affection."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1762-3
"Fancy steps in, and stamps that real, / Which, ipso facto, is ideal."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
The senses should be distrusted "till Reason sets her seal, / And, by long trains of consequences / Ensured, gives sanction to the senses."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762
"And stamp Thine image on my breast, / And fill my emptied heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: November, 1762; 1797
"This reflection was so strongly impressed upon my mind, that T'was able to employ the succeeding morning in setting down the particulars of a dream occasioned by it."
preview | full record— Thornton, Bonnell (1725-1768)
Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)
"An idea attended with great pleasure or pain makes a deep impression on the memory, i. e. a deep trace on the brain, the spirits being then violently impelled."
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)