Date: 1755

"These prodigious conceits in nature spring out of framing abstracted conceptions, instead of those easy and primary notions which nature stamps alike in all men of common sense."

— Digby on Bodies [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"No constant reason of this can be given, but from the nature of man's mind, which hath this notion of a deity born with it, and stamped upon it; or is of such a frame, that in the free use of itself will find God."

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

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

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]

Date: 1755

The mind, intent only on one thing may not settle "the stamp deep into itself"

— 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

"He that brings this love to thee, / Little knows this love in me; / And by him seal up thy mind."

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

Date: 1755

"The sense is like the sun; for the sun seals up the globe of heaven, and opens the globe of earth: so the sense doth obscure heavenly things, and reveals earthly things"

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

Date: 1755

"There are so many ways of fallacy, such arts of giving colours, appearances and resemblances by this court-dresser, the fancy"

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

Date: 1755

"Who has a breast so pure,/ But some uncleanly apprehensions/ Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit,/ With meditations lawful"

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