Date: 1754

"As the mind does not act till it is rouzed into action by external objects; so when it does act, it acts conformably to the suggestions it receives from these impressions, and takes with its first ideas the hints how to multiply, and improve them."

— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)

Date: 1754

"But a nature capable of sensation, that is of perception, that is of thought (to say nothing of spontaneous motion, of memory, nor of the passions) cannot be incapable of another mode of thinking, any more than finite extension can be capable of one figure alone, or a piece of wax that receives ...

— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)

Date: 1755

"Though God has given us no innate ideas of himself, though he has stampt no original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his being; yet having furnished us with those faculties our minds are endowed with, he hath not left himself without witness."

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

Date: 1755

"If the organs of perception, like wax overhardened with cold, will not receive the impression of the seal; or, like wax of a temper too soft, will not hold it."

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

Date: 1755

"Were the offices of religion stript of all the external decencies, they would not make a due impression on the mind."

— Atterbury [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"The false representations of the kingdom's enemies had made some impression in the mind of the successor."

— Swift [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"There is a real knowledge of material things, when the thing itself, and the real action and impression thereof on our senses, is perceived"

— Cheyne [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: w. 1737-1742, published 1755, 1764, 1773

"And the more I with study my fancy refin'd, / The deeper impression she made on my mind."

— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)

Date: 1755

"He bade me tell thee, / That in his Heart indelibly are stamp'd / His Father's Wrongs, and Thine."

— Brown, John (1715-1766)

Date: 1755, 1836

The Maker has "impress'd" on the human breast, a "sense of kindred, country, man"

— Grainger, James (1721-1766)