Date: 1781
"Let matter then be allowed to furnish the first materials; the enlightened mind, which by its operations upon these discovers truth, and pursues it through all its distant connections, must have powers as far superiour to that which gave the first impression, as PHIDIAS is superiour to the marble."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1781
The "passive mind" may be (merely) impressed by substances and modes
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: September, 1781
"To think in this manner is to augment our existence, as instead of reckoning a third of our life mere waste, we habituate ourselves to attend to the result of our hours past in Sleep, and to recover out of the mass of thought produced during that period, very often amusement, and sometimes usefu...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1782
"The mind and conduct mutually imprint / And stamp their image in each other's mint."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"How all impressions of the mind are chang'd! / The heart distended and the head derang'd."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1782
"You carried out (through God's grace) an honest friendly heart, a clear discerning head, and a soul impressed with every humane feeling."
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)
Date: 1782
"Read Mr. Garrick's letter night and morning--put it next your heart--impress it on your memory--and may the God of all Mercy give you grace to follow his friendly dictates!"
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)
Date: 1782
"I am convinced that the general inhumanity of mankind proceeds--first, from the cursed false principle of common education--and, secondly, from a total indifference (if not disbelief) of the Christian faith;--a heart and mind impressed with a firm belief of the Christian tenets, must of course e...
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)
Date: 1783
"Aristotle seems to think, that every object of sense makes, upon the human soul, or upon some part of our frame, a certain impression; which remains for some time after the object that made it is gone; and which, being afterwards recognized by the mind in sleep"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: April, 1783
"If impressions are made upon some substance in the mind, may not forgetfulness of them be only that the perceptive faculty of the soul is turned to other objects, while these still remain ready to be perceived whenever the 'mind's eye,' glances upon them?"
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)