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 Saturday Magazine - Page 1921833Full view - About this book
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...notice of what hurts or benefits the body. " The Ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before us : and our minds represent to us those tombs,...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution... | |
| John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...last there remains nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs,...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors ; and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...there re" mains nothing to be seen. 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 ap" preaching; where, though the brass and marble remain, " yet the inscriptions are effaced by time... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 518 pages
...last there remains nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs,...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... | |
| John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
...observes, " The ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us : and our minds represent those tombs, to which we are approaching; where though...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution... | |
| Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...observes, " The ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us : and our minds represent those tombs, to which we are approaching; where though...inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulxters away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed,... | |
| 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...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refieshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 pages
...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... | |
| John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...last there remains nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us : and our minds represent to us those tombs,...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
..." there remains nothing to be seen. Thus, the ideas, " as well as children of our youth, often die before "us: And our minds represent to us those tombs...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... | |
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