 | Samuel Bailey - Psychology - 1855 - 846 pages
...of the transitory character of our reminiscences. "There seems to be a constant decay," he says, " of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest...retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1773 - 674 pages
...man's power and as " He can alone create, so He can alone destroy." The memory of some men is tenacious to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all the ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive, so that if they... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 652 pages
...Human Understanding' (ii. 10, 5): — ' The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which, at first, occasioned... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1865 - 634 pages
...Human Understanding " (ii. 10, 5) : — " The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which, at first, occasioned... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...minds than in those of people born blind. The memory in some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...some men is very tenacious, even to a "miracle [slightly hyperbolical];* (but) yet there seems to bo a " constant decay of all our ideas, even of those...retentive ; (so that) if they be not " sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses or ' by ' " reflection on (those kinds of objects which) ' on the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1873 - 792 pages
...Understanding ' (ii. 10,5): The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; hut yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our...retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which, at first, occasioned... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1873 - 738 pages
...Human Understanding" (ii. 10, 5) : — " The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive ; BO that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those... | |
 | George Harris - Human beings - 1876 - 588 pages
...faculties are nevertheless ever in active • " The memory of some, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...void of them, as if they had never been there The memory of some, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle: but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned... | |
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The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest... 
