 | John Martin F. Wright - 1827 - 632 pages
...minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marK remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away." Book II. c. 10. Distinguish between the retentive power of Memory, and the other powers of that faculty.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1827 - 414 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are " laid in fading colour es, and, if not sometimes refreshed, "... | |
 | John Martin Frederick Wright - 1827 - 320 pages
...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 away.'' Book II. c. 10. Distinguish between the retentive power of Memory, and the other powers of that faculty.... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 390 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 392 pages
...represen t 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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Industrial arts - 1829 - 654 pages
...minds represent 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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...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 away." * — Essay, &c. Book ii. chap. 10. * (Font JVote.) In ordinary cases, I confess, I strongly suspect... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors, and if not sometunes refreshed, vanish and... | |
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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... 
