Date: 1791
"Talking of the religious discipline proper for unhappy convicts, he said, 'Sir, one of our regular clergy will probably not impress their minds sufficiently: they should be attended by a Methodist preacher, or a Popish priest.'"
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1792
"From this correct knowledge of objects arises another amusement; that of representing, by a few strokes in a sketch, those ideas, which have made the most impression upon us."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1792
"This habitual slavery, to first impressions, has a more baneful effect on the female than the male character, because business and other dry employments of the understanding, tend to deaden the feelings and break associations that do violence to reason."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"I should have been glad if I could have had an earlier opportunity also of knowing, which I do not admit at present, that it was genuine and authentic; because I know not only the impression which such a letter must make upon Gentlemen's minds who are the Jury to try the cause, b...
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1792
"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
The Roman senators moved the mind by sympathetic strokes and oped "the effect of each impression on their own warm mind"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"I have just risen from a conversation which has made a deep impression on my mind."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1793
"Religion is a principle which the practice of all ages has deeply impressed upon the mind."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"We must divulge our sentiments with the utmost frankness. We must endeavour to impress them upon the minds of others."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Yet such is the construction of the human mind, that fear must be strongly imprest not to wear off by time."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]