Date: 1760
"With how quick a succession, do days, months and years pass over our heads? -- how truly like a shadow that departeth do they flee away insensibly, and scarce leave an impression with us?"
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"I was deaf, insensible, rock, adamant, the bailiffs could make no impression on my hard heart, for I effectually kept my liberty by never stirring out of the room."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Those storms may discompose in proportion as they are strong, or the mind is pliant to their impression."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1790
"This principle ought even to be more strongly impressed upon the minds of those who compose the collective sovereignty than upon those of single princes."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)