 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 - 1854 - 536 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...inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away."1 — Essay, &c., book ii. chap. 10.] jects with which we are surrounded, and about which we... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...and disappear. 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...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... | |
 | 1854 - 664 pages
...recorded by Locke, who says, when speaking of the deeay of the mind in old age,—" Ideas often die before us, and our minds represent to us those tombs...approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain, yct the inseriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away." Having considered this spiritual... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tomba to which we are approaching, whero, though the brass and marble remain, yet. the inscriptions...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 in a few... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 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." He afterwards adds, that... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 278 pages
...and at last there is 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" f * Essay on Human Understanding,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - English essays - 1855 - 428 pages
...flow, 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 in a few... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 pages
...our language for beauty of conception, aptness of application, and completeness of structure: — " Our minds represent to us those tombs to which we...the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions arc effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. How much the constitution of our bodies and the... | |
 | Christianity - 1860 - 514 pages
...cluster of analogies scarcely less exquisite. ' The ideas, as ' well as children of our youth, often die before us ; and our ' minds represent to us those...moulders ' away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading ' colours ; and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. ' It may seem probable... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1863 - 424 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 effaced, and the imagery mouldered away. The pictures in our minds are drawn in... | |
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