 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 390 pages
...which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 392 pages
...which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us : and our minds represen t to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen. Thus, the ideas, as well as children of our youth, often...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear" He afterwards adds, that "... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...at first occasioned them, the print wears mit, and at last there remains nothing to be seen. Thus, the ideas, as well as children of our youth, often...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors, and if not sometunes refreshed, vanish and disappear." He afterwards adds, that "... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 pages
...in our minds are laid in fading colors, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Thus the ideas as well as children of our youth often die...are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away." * — Essay, &.C. Book ii. chap. 10. * (Font JVofe.) In ordinary cases, I confess, I strongly suspect... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...in our minds are laid in fading colors, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Thus the ideas as well as children of our youth often die...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... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Industrial arts - 1829 - 654 pages
...retentive memory. Mr. Locke, speaking of the continual decay of our ideas, beautifully observes, " The ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before as: and our minds represent those tombs to which we are approaching ; where, though the brass and marble... | |
 | 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
...reflection become dull and languid, and "thus," to borrow the words of a great Christian philosopher, "thus the ideas as well as children of our youth, often...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... | |
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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... 
