Date: Thursday, August 9, 1711
"Where Sovereigns have it [love of glory] by Impressions received from Education only, it creates an Ambitious rather than a Noble Mind; where it is the natural Bent of the Prince's Inclination, it prompts him to the Pursuit of Things truly Glorious."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Thursday, September 6, 1711
"In Afflictions Men generally draw their Consolations out of Books of Morality, which indeed are of great use to fortifie and strengthen the Mind against the Impressions of Sorrow."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 1711
"So very dreadful had he made himself to me, that altho' it is above twenty Years since I felt his heavy Hand, yet still once a Month at least I dream of him, so strong an Impression did he make on my Mind."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 1711
"The liberal Arts, though they may possibly have less Effect on our external Mein and Behaviour, make so deep an Impression on the Mind, as is very apt to bend it wholly one Way."
preview | full record— Budgell, Eustace (1686-1737)
Date: 1711
"Know, hardy Atheists, who insulting say / Some populous Realms to Gods no Homage pay, / And therefore Nature's universal Law / Imprints not on the Mind Religious Awe; / That those, who no superior Being own, / Are more from Beasts by Shape, than Reason known."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"Thus Fancy does the pliant Foetus wind, / Thus makes Impressions on the feeble Mind."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)
Date: 1712
"Vain Dreams (reply'd the wily Youth) deceive / Your wand'ring Thoughts, and false Impressions leave"
preview | full record— Diaper, William (1686-1717)
Date: 1712, 1796
"But what had been already said, / On David's mind a deep impression made."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
Date: 1712, 1796
"But what he from the Lord had to him said, / On David's heart a deep impression made"
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
Date: August 23, 1712
"When a Man thinks of any thing in the Darkness of the Night, whatever deep Impressions it may make in his Mind, they are apt to vanish as soon as the Day breaks about him."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)