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]

Date: 1755

"Blind as the Cyclops, and blind as he, / They own'd a lawless savage liberty, / Like that our painted ancestors so priz'd, / Ere empire's arts their breasts had civiliz'd."

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

Date: 1755

The faculties of mind with which man is endowed are witness to God's being

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

Date: 1755

"That natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls, in their first origin, are supposed to be stampt with"

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

Date: 1755

"Were the offices of religion stript of all the external decencies, they would not make a due impression on the mind."

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

Date: 1755

"The false representations of the kingdom's enemies had made some impression in the mind of the successor."

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

Date: 1755

"There is a real knowledge of material things, when the thing itself, and the real action and impression thereof on our senses, is perceived"

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

Date: 1755

"Both kinds of metal he prepar'd, / Either to give blows or to ward; / Courage and steel both of great force"

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

Date: 1755

"The foolish old poet says, that the souls of some women are made of sea-water"

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

Date: 1755

"She through the porch and inlet of each sense / Dropt in ambrosial oils till she reviv'd."

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