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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 Cyclopædia: Or, Elements of Useful Knowledge, Methodically ... - Page 553
by John Millard - 1813 - 645 pages
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The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh ...

Sir James Mackintosh - English literature - 1851 - 854 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 Chess-player's Pocket Companion: Containing an Account of the Game of ...

Samuel Comyn - Chess - 1851 - 86 pages
...and a few of the ENDINGS of Games. BT SAMUEL COMYN, Of the Middle Temple, Esq., Barrister at Law. " The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading...if not sometimes refreshed vanish and disappear." LOCKE. LONDON : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL,. AND Co. WALMSLEY, LIVERPOOL; BERWICK, LANCASTER. MUCCCLI. HARVARD...
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Address at the Annual Meeting of the Educational Institute of Scotland ...

James Bryce - Education - 1852 - 630 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,...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear." (z) There is, however, one probability connected with the memory, of most solemn import, and which,...
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Thomson's Conspectus of the British Pharmacopoeias

Anthony Todd Thomson - Pharmacopoeias - 1852 - 258 pages
...PHYSICIAN TO TBB CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, CURATOR OF MUSEUM, GUY'S HOSl'ITAL. " The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear." — LOCxg. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. l852. J¿7. Глиооя: BPOTTISWOODES and...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas ..., Part 2

David Thomas - 1884 - 468 pages
...our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where although the brass, and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery is mouldered away." — John Locke. THE PENALTY OF PROFLIGACY. " How like a younger, or a prodigal,...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 448 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...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.' He afterwards adds, that ' we sometimes find a disease strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 4

Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...Tims 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...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.' He afterwards adds, that ' we sometimes find a disease strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 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...effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away."' — Essay, &c., book ii. chap. 10.] jects with which we arc surrounded, and about which we have every...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...Thus the ideas as well as children of our youth often die before us, and our luinds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where, though...inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away."i — Essay, &c., book ii. chap. 10.] jects with which we are surrounded, distinguished by a...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 2

Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...experience bears witness. It is beautifully and pathetically stated by Locke in the following words : — " The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Thus the ideas as well as children of our youth often die before us, and our minds represent to us...
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