 | James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 364 pages
...intelligible, pathetick, and richly figured. "The memory in some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant...deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that the nice and difficult task wa> to have been undertaken by one of the moft luminous mindi of the pretent... | |
 | James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 368 pages
...intelligible, pathetick, and richly figured. "The memory in some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant...of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the mosl: retentive; so that the nice and difficult task was to have been undertaken by one of the most... | |
 | John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1977 - 364 pages
...minds, than in those of people born blind. The memory of some, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle: but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | Jules David Law - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 282 pages
...depth and thus for the preservation of ideas, and indeed a few chapters later Locke acknowledges that "there seems to be a constant decay of all our Ideas, even of those which are struck deepest... so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated Exercise of the Senses, or Reflection . . . the... | |
 | Veronica Kelly, Dorothea von Mücke - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 364 pages
...to time and its contents are ephemeral: The Memory in some Men, 'tis true, is very tenacious, even to a Miracle: But yet there seems to be a constant...retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated Exercise of the Senses, or Reflection on those kind of Objects, which at first occasioned... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - Mathematics - 2019 - 390 pages
...variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea. Essay Concerning Human Understanding II There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas;...retentive, so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | Peter Walmsley - Philosophy - 2003 - 208 pages
...is very tenacious, even to a Miracle: But vet there seems to be a constant decay of all our IdeiW, even of those which are struck deepest, and in Minds...retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed bv repeated Exercise of the Senses, or Reflection on those kind of Objects, which at first occasioned... | |
 | Susan M. Stabile - History - 2004 - 310 pages
...to mnemonics. Locke, like Beattie, characterized the memory as "very tenacious." But emphasizing the "constant decay of all our Ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in the Mind the most retentive," he prescribed writing as the antidote to forgetfulness. As "deposition,"... | |
 | William James - Psychology - 2007 - 709 pages
...Wolfe's paper in ' Science ' for Nov. 19, 1886. The original is ia Psychologische Studien, in. 884 ff. even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be nQt sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which... | |
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The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest... 
