Date: 1755
"These prodigious conceits in nature spring out of framing abstracted conceptions, instead of those easy and primary notions which nature stamps alike in all men of common sense."
preview | full record— Digby on Bodies [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"No constant reason of this can be given, but from the nature of man's mind, which hath this notion of a deity born with it, and stamped upon it; or is of such a frame, that in the free use of itself will find God."
preview | full record— Tillotson [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
Man does not have "a power of stamping his best sentiments upon his memory in indelible characters"
preview | full record— Watts [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
The mind, intent only on one thing may not settle "the stamp deep into itself"
preview | full record— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]