I do not often quote Bolingbroke, nor have his works in general left any permanent impression on my mind.
About fifty years ago when I was a small child a thing happened in my home town which made a permanent impression on me.
As a result she fails to create any permanent impression on the reader's mind.
Burke denied that Bolingbroke's words left "any permanent impression on his mind."
Remember, it would have made no permanent impression if I hadn't come across these parallel cases.
The wooden structures would make no permanent impression on the land after they were torn down or burned.
The events in 1905 made a permanent impression on him, and had a deep influence on his later career.
Such an experience can occur multiple times, or only once, to make a permanent impression on the mind.
Surely it is better to read one masterpiece than three books which will leave no permanent impression on the mind.
Only the last of these made a permanent impression, though Shaw remained his close friend throughout his life.