Date: 1751

"To this end, the Author of our nature has done two things. He has established a constancy and uniformity in the operations of nature. And he has impressed upon our minds, a conviction or belief of this constancy and uniformity, and that things will be as they have been."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"Grand objects make a deep impression upon the mind, and give force to that passion which occupies it at the time."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"Any object alarms the mind, when it is already prepared by darkness, to receive impressions of fear."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1751

"[F]or though, when we are solicitously engaged in any action, deeply involved in any thought, or strongly hurried away by any passion, we may often be unconscious of the impressions made by material causes on the organs of sense; yet we cannot but be sensible of the ideas formed within us by the...

— Whytt, Robert (1714-1766)

Date: 1751

"To avoid all metaphysical disputes about different degrees of consciousness; I desire it may be understood, that here and in other parts of this Essay, when I say we are not conscious of certain impressions made on the mind by the action of material causes on the organs of the body, I mean no mo...

— Whytt, Robert (1714-1766)

Date: 1751

"[I]f otherwise, we endeavour in vain to correct his wrong judgment by reason or argument, since the disordered state of the brain makes a stronger impression upon the mind, than any arguments or external considerations whatever."

— Whytt, Robert (1714-1766)

Date: Saturday, April 6, 1751

"He, therefore, that feels himself alarmed by his conscience, anxious for the attainment of a better state, and afflicted by the memory of his past faults, may justly conclude, that the great work of repentance is begun, and hope by retirement and prayer, the natural and religious means of streng...

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: Tuesday, November 19, 1751

"We frequently fall into errour and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be e...

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: Saturday, February 9, 1751

"The general resemblance of the sound to the sense is to be found in every language which admits of poetry, in every author whose force of fancy enables him to impress images strongly on his own mind, and whose choice and variety of language readily supply him with just representations."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: 1751

"[B]ut this dreadful vision had been the result of that impression which was made upon his brain, by the intolerable anguish of his joints"

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)