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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... "
The New Pocket Cyclopędia: Or, Elements of Useful Knowledge, Methodically ... - Page 553
by John Millard - 1813 - 645 pages
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A conspectus of the pharmacopœias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin ...

Anthony Todd Thomson - 1841 - 240 pages
...P%rician,, Pro/rssor of Materi« Mediea and Therapeut,ct, in Univers,ty College, London, ^c. $c. $c. "The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and if not sumetimes refreshed, vam,h and d,sappear." — LDC«s. THIRTEENTH EDITIoN. CONTAINING THE NEW FRENCH...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind: In Two Parts, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - Philosophy of mind - 1843 - 632 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 the brass and marble remain, yet the inscription's are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away."* — Essay, &c. Book ii. chap. 10....
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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 effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. Pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, unless sometimes refreshed, vanish and...
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The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 614 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. Pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, unless sometimes refreshed, vanish and...
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The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 618 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 the brass and rnnrble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. Pictures drawn...
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The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three ...

Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1848 - 630 pages
...The ideas, as well as cnildren of our youth, often die before из, and our minds rc'present to ия those 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 fnding colours, and, unless sometimes refreshed, vanish and...
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A Journal of Summer Time in the Country

Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Country life - 1849 - 256 pages
...of conception, aptness of application, and completeness of structure : " Our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though...are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. How much the constitution of our bodies are concerned in this, and whether the temper of the brain...
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 3-4

William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 502 pages
...IDEAS. 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. — Locke. THOUGHTS. " Conscience," says St. Austin, " is like a wife ; the best of comforts, if good;...
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Miscellaneous Works

Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 pages
...youth, often die before us, and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching j where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the...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...
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Composition, literary and rhetorical, simplified

rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 pages
...10, s. 5.) relating to the retentiveness of the memory; it begins thus : " Our minds represent to us those tombs to which we " are approaching; where, though the brass and marble re" main, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the " imagination moulders away." The following...
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