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]
Date: 1793
"Yet when anecdotes are not merely transcribed, but animated by judicious reflections, they recal others of a kindred nature: one suggests another; and the whole series is made to illustrate some topic that gratifies curiosity, or impresses on the mind some interesting conclusion in the affairs o...
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1794
"Every person of learning is finally his own teacher; the reason of which is, that principles, being of a distinct quality to circumstances, cannot be impressed upon the memory; their place of mental residence is the understanding, and they are never so lasting as when they begin by conception."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"As the bullion of which money is made, is the king's property, even before it is struck into coin, and before it visibly bears the royal image and superscription; so the unregenerate elect are God's own heritage, though they do not appear to be such, until the Holy Spirit has made them pass thro...
preview | full record— Toplady, Augustus (1740-1771)