 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 518 pages
...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,...imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds arc laid in fading colors ; and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution... | |
 | Gregor von Feinaigle - Memory - 1813 - 516 pages
...before us : and our minds represent those tombs, to which we are approaching ; where though the bras* and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced...minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refieshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution of our bodies, and the make of our animal... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 pages
...children of our youth,' as Locke beautifully observes, ' often die before us, and our minds not seldom represent those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain, the inscriptions are efikced, and the imagery mouldered away. The pictures in our minds are drawn in... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...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,...moulders away. " The pictures drawn in our minds are laid infad" ing colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish " and disappear." He afterwards adds, that... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 746 pages
...on fo thin, as not to obfcure or conceal any part of the fines. Watts. 10. To paint; to enamel. — The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not fometimes refreflied, vanilh and difappear. Locke, n. To put into any date of quiet.— They bragged,... | |
 | 1854 - 718 pages
..., ' 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...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 of a fever... | |
 | 1822 - 686 pages
...processes of thought, without considering whether these general laws were not themselves limited by other tombs to which we are approaching ; where, though...are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. Pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, unless sometimes refreshed, vanish and... | |
 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 576 pages
...The ideas, as well as the 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 may remain, yet the inscriptions are often effaced by time, and the imagery worn away. The imagination... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 388 pages
...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...are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes re- „ freshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution of our bodies and the make of our... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pages
...ideas, he compares to the tombs to which we are hastening, " where, though the brass and marble may remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away." 7. That Locke conceives the memory to be a faculty which, in a great degree at least, depends upon... | |
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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... 
