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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 Philosophy of Natural Theology: An Essay in Confutation of the ...

William Jackson - Natural theology - 1875 - 452 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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Manual of English Rhetoric

Andrew Dousa Hepburn - English language - 1875 - 298 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 molders away." Locke. "As iron girders and pillars expand and contract with the mere variations of...
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A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man, Volume 2

George Harris - Human beings - 1876 - 588 pages
...and our minda 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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An analysis of Locke's Essay on the human understanding, in the form of ...

Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 pages
...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 away.* He notices three causes as likely to contribute to the difference of powers of Retention...
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Worthies of Science

John Stoughton - Scientists - 1879 - 358 pages
...49-51. children of our youth, die before us, and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced ly time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours,...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Notes and Illustrations of ...

John Locke - 1879 - 722 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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The book of texts of ancient and modern history, &c, Volume 121

Francis Armstrong Power - Bible - 1879 - 668 pages
...our " minds represent to us thoso 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 on our minds aro luid in fading colours; " and, if not sometimes...
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A Thousand Thoughts from Various Authors

Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 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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Exercises in celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the ...

Robert P Clapp - 1881 - 202 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. '- It needs no word of mine," said the Mayor, " on such an occasion as this, to remind...
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Exercises in Celebrating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the ...

Cambridge, Mass - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1881 - 194 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. " It needs no word of mine," said tbe Mayor, " on such an occasion as this, to remind...
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