 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
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...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 those tombs...are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away." * — Essay, &c. Book ii. chap. 10. * (Font JVote.) In ordinary cases, I confess, I strongly suspect... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 pages
...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 those tombs...are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away." * — Essay, &.C. Book ii. chap. 10. * (Font JVofe.) In ordinary cases, I confess, I strongly suspect... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Industrial arts - 1829 - 654 pages
...observe«, "The ideas, us 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 I aid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How mucli the constitution... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which th.ey are approaching ; where, though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery has mouldered away." This beautiful passage is introduced to shew, that it is a trait of a good comparison,... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 pages
...words of a great Christian philosopher, "thus 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." II. But I am to enquire, secondly, into the true cause of human frailty and decay. To impute effects... | |
 | Roscoe Goddard Greene - English language - 1830 - 124 pages
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which they are approaching ; where though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery has mouldered away. HONOR. Would you not think it an honor to be employed by God in creating a world... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...seen. Thus 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...remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time. How much the constitution of our bodies is concerned in this 1 shall not here. inquire ; though it... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...seen. Thus 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...remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time. How much the constitution of our bodies is concerned in this I shall not here inquire ; though it probably... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1831 - 416 pages
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which they are approaching ; where, though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery has mouldered away.' This comparison, he is told, is naturally suggested ; and in connexion with the... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...deeper it sinks into the heart. — COLERIDOE. The ideas as well as children of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs...fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.— LOCKE. Dreams may be said to be the relaxation and amusement of the soul when she... | |
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