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
| Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 652 pages
...remains nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas, as well as children of our TO KNOW. 573 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... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...them. J. ADDISON 464. EVANESCENCE OF IDEAS. 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. Whether the temper of the... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1864 - 362 pages
...our language for beauty of conception, aptness of application, and completeness of structure : — " Our minds represent to us those tombs to which we...are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. How much the constitution of our bodies and the make of our animal spirits are concerned in this, and... | |
| Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - Psychology - 1892 - 636 pages
...of forgetfuluess thus : Locke II, 10:5. "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." In the above passage we can... | |
| Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - Psychology - 1892 - 638 pages
...of forgetfnlness thus : Locke II, 10:5. "Thus tbe ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us, and our minds represent to us those tombs...brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are (faced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid ia fading colors,... | |
| Joseph Payne, Joseph Frank Payne - Education - 1892 - 390 pages
...well as the children of our youth often die before us, and our minds represent to us [ie, are like] those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though...are effaced by time and the imagery moulders away."* Locke's method, as it has been called, of interlinear translation I shall consider in connection with... | |
| Charles John Smith - English language - 1893 - 796 pages
...debts, are cancelled. "Thus the ideas, a« well as children, of oar youth often die before us, and oar minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though bran and marble remain, yet the inscription!« are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away."—... | |
| John Locke - 1894 - 604 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... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...light, as a discovered diamond ? — Mrs. Stowe. The ideas, as well as children of onr youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we arc approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians in literature - 1896 - 392 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... | |
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