Diligently instil into a boy that he is a stupid, idle, bad-hearted blockhead, and you are very likely to make him all that.

It is from this incapacity that religious people, at least too many of them, labour so sedulously as they do to instil the notion of the particularity of the work of salvation, making it almost to appear, that the Almighty Father brings beings into existence, merely to make them miserable,but we are wandering from our story.

One man holds us in awe, and we unconsciously instil that feeling.

There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the calm pleasures, always hovered nigh; But whate'er smacked of 'noyance or unrest Was far, far off expelled from this delicious nest.