Date: 1614
"That there is a God; ... This is a common notion, and impression, sealed up in the minde of every man."
preview | full record— Purchas, Samuel (bap. 1577, d. 1626)
Date: 1682
"The Body is but the Clog and Prisoner of the Mind; tossed up and down, and persecuted with Punishments, Violences, and Diseases; but the Mind it self is Sacred, and Eternal, and exempt from the Danger of all Actual Impression."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1697
"Let every thing we desire to remember, be fairly written and distinctly, and divided into Periods with large Characters in the beginnings for by this means we shall the more readily imprint the Matter and Words in our Minds, the more remarkable the Writing appears to the Eye."
preview | full record— D'Assigny, Marius (1643-1717)
Date: 1697
" Let these Characters, or Beginnings of every Period, be well imprinted in our Minds, for they will quickly bring thither the whole Discourse also."
preview | full record— D'Assigny, Marius (1643-1717)
Date: 1697
"For this Similitude will certainly imprint the Thing or Person so in our Mind, that if we do casually forget, we shall the more easily recover the lost Idea; because the Idea that we have already in Memory, and that hath a resemblance and relation to that which is absent in some known Particular...
preview | full record— D'Assigny, Marius (1643-1717)
Date: 1697
"We may imprint in our Minds, and fix things in Memory, by thinking upon their Contraries or Opposites; and we may by the same means better remember things that are almost blotted out of our Imagination."
preview | full record— D'Assigny, Marius (1643-1717)