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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... "
A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 69
by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 252 pages
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The New Art of Memory: Founded Upon the Principles Taught by M. Gregor Von ...

Gregor von Feinaigle - Memory - 1813 - 516 pages
...us : and our minds represent those tombs, to which we are approaching ; where though the bras* 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 refieshed,...
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The New Pocket Cyclopaedia: Or, Elements Or Useful Knowledge, Methodically ...

Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...before us : and our 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 moulxters away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed,...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed,...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...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 away. " The pictures drawn in our minds are laid infad" ing colours, and if not sometimes...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 99

1854 - 718 pages
...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 away. . . . We sometimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 1

John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 388 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes re-...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. analysis ...

John Locke - 1824 - 552 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed,...
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Precept and example, in the instructive letters of eminent men to their ...

Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed,...
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Literary gems [ed. by J.S.].

Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, it' not refreshed,...
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Essays and Miscellaneous Writings

Walter Nichols - 1826 - 192 pages
...our minds represent unto us their 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,...
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