Date: Friday, April 24. 1724

"It weakens our Humanity, and eradicates an open Confidence, which most Men are born with; but lose, as it were, insensibly, by the Influence of low Maxims: such as are early imprinted on the Minds of all who are educated to the Arts of Bargaining."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: Monday, June 22. 1724

"Reading the Salutary Maxims of Wise Men, with Attention, digesting them by Meditation, and imprinting them on the Memory, by frequent Recollection, is a Mind-Diet or Regimen, which will, in a short Time, restore Health to a decayed Constitution, and add incredible Vigour, to a Weak and Languishi...

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: Monday, July 20. 1724.

"When Souls of a superior Form, look Abroad, and discover among their honest Inferiors, Minds capable of the finest Impressions, and only in Danger of being render'd barren by Poverty, Ignorance, and Injuries."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: Friday, March 19, 1725

"And, to say all in a Word, Where Description alone appears too weak to imprint an Idea on the Mind of a Reader, there the only effectual Remedy is to have Recourse to a Simile."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1727

"The Steward had no publick Notice of any Harm approaching; but for three or four Days successively he had secret strange Impulses of Dread and Terror upon his Mind that the House was beset, and was to be assaulted by a Troop of Banditti, or as we call them here, House-breakers, who would murther...

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

Date: 1727

"But in the midst of these Tumults of his Soul, he had a strong Impression upon his Mind, that he could never die in Peace, nor ever go to Heaven, if he did not go over to England, and either get the Parliament's Pardon (for it was in those Days when there was no King in Israel) or that if he cou...

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

Date: 1727

"All the way as he walk'd his Mind was heavy, and oppress'd; and he frequently said to his Brother who walk'd with him, that he was certain he was going to London to be surpriz'd: and so strong was the foreboding Impression upon his Mind, that he once stop'd at Hornsey, and endeavoured to get a L...

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

Date: 1727

"The Impression upon his Mind continuing, he stop'd again at Islington, and endeavour'd to get a Lodging there; but could not: so at last, when his Brother brought him word he could not get a Lodging, except where it was too publick, Well, says he, than I must go to London, and take what follows;...

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

Date: 1727

"He endeavoured to wear it off of his Mind, but it [would] not do; the Impression to be sure would be strengthned by his own Guilt, and both together brought him to himself."

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

Date: 1727

"Upon what Religious Foundation can we suggest, that the Sins of the Children should disquiet the Fathers in their Graves, or that the Souls departed can receive any Impression from the Behaviour of those in Life, subsequent to any Action those Souls departed have been concern'd in?"

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)