 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alice Mary Longfellow - Acadians - 1896 - 162 pages
...memory ; for an English philosopher has said that the ideas as well as children of our youth often die before us, and our minds represent to us those tombs...effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The chair gave the children a proud feeling of proprietorship in the poet, and hundreds of little boys... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - Psychology - 1899 - 682 pages
...of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are fast approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain,...effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away."* The differences in the retentive power of individuals are, in part at least, differences in original endowment,... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - Psychology - 1899 - 668 pages
...there remains nothing to be seen." Thus the experiences, "as well as children, of our youth, often dio before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are fast approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time,... | |
 | Joseph Battell - Force and energy - 1903 - 722 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 of... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 382 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... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 424 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... | |
 | Catholic University of America - Philosophy - 1905 - 198 pages
...store,'4 ' printed ' in the mind, ' roused and tumbled out of their dark cells into open daylight.'6 " Our minds represent to us those tombs to which we...are effaced by time and the imagery moulders away."' These and other similar comparisons show clearly that Locke tried to account for the exercise of the... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1904 - 800 pages
...necessity, favours, debts, are cancelled. "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 brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away."... | |
 | Leonardo Bianchi - Human information processing - 1906 - 930 pages
...important a function as remembering.' Locke says, ' Our minds represent to us those tombs that we are fast approaching ; where, though the brass and marble remain,...inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulds away.' Under some special conditions, however, certain records of real impressions and of positions... | |
 | Psychology - 1905 - 680 pages
...store,'4 ' printed ' in the mind, ' roused and tumbled out of their dark cells into open daylight.'6 " Our minds represent to us those tombs to which we...inscriptions are effaced by time and the imagery moulders away."7 These and other similar comparisons show clearly that Locke tried to account for the exercise... | |
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