 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 - 1816 - 1048 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, to which wre are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet (lie inscriptions are eflaced by... | |
 | John Locke - 1817 - 556 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, to which we are approaching; where though the bras* and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The... | |
 | L. Murray - 1821 - 620 pages
...ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before us : and our minds represent those tombs, ' o which we are approaching ; where though the brass...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... | |
 | 1854 - 718 pages
...exquisitely adapted to the sentiment : — , ' The ideas as well as children of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs...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
...no more permanent than the understanding. The ideas, as well as the children of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs...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 - Knowledge, Theory of - 1823 - 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 - Philosophy - 1823 - 386 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 - 1824 - 552 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... | |
 | 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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