 Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 130by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...palms, tho" under weights they did not stand. Still thrived ; no Winter could his laurels fade. Dry den. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Loche. Where either through the temper of the body, or some other default, the memory is very weak,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which th.ey are approaching ; where, though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery has mouldered away." This beautiful passage is introduced to shew, that it is a trait of a good comparison,... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 pages
...ideas as well as children of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass...are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away." II. But I am to enquire, secondly, into the true cause of human frailty and decay. To impute effects... | |
 | Roscoe Goddard Greene - English language - 1830 - 124 pages
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which they are approaching ; where though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery has mouldered away. HONOR. Would you not think it an honor to be employed by God in creating a world... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent those tombs to which we are approaching, where though the brass...remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time. How much the constitution of our bodies is concerned in this 1 shall not here. inquire ; though it... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent those tombs to which we are approaching, where though the brass...remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time. How much the constitution of our bodies is concerned in this I shall not here inquire ; though it probably... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1831 - 416 pages
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which they are approaching ; where, though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery has mouldered away.' This comparison, he is told, is naturally suggested ; and in connexion with the... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...as well as children, of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid on in fading colours, and, if not sometimes re freshed, vanish and disappear. LOCKE. Incredulity is... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...ideas as well as children of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid on in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.— LOCKE. Dreams may be... | |
 | Charles Henry Ackerley - Bridges - 1834 - 100 pages
...in the headsheets of whale-boats, it is cased in, or placed each side of the stem, on the outside. " Pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear/'—Locke. To the intellect of the Inventor of Lithography, (" SENNEFELDER,") the author... | |
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