 | John Locke - 1823 - 672 pagini
...though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in...concerned in this, and whether the temper of the brain make this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn on it like marble; in others, like... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 388 pagini
...though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes re- „ freshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution of our bodies and the make of our... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pagini
...which, in a great degree at least, depends upon a physical constitution, appears from what follows : " How much the constitution of our bodies, and the make of our animal spirits are concerned in this" (the degree of our retention), " and whether the temper of the brain makes this difference, that in... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pagini
...though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in...not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear." How sublime this allusion to our final destiny, and the fleeting nature of those little concerns with which... | |
 | Walter Nichols - 1826 - 192 pagini
...though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear." Ye* this very imperfection, as it might be esteemed, is an evidence of the all-provident and ever watchful... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pagini
...though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, it' not refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution of our bodies and the make of our... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 pagini
...experience bears witness. It is beautifully and pathetically stated by Locke in the following words : '' The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Thus the " ideas as well as children of our youth often die before us ; and " our minds represent to... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 602 pagini
...though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in...concerned in this, and whether the temper of the brain make this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn on it like marble ; in others like... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 pagini
...palms, tho" under weights they did not stand. Still thrived ; no Winter could his laurels fade. Dry den. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Loche. Where either through the temper of the body, or some other default, the memory is very weak,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1829 - 654 pagini
...inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery 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 of our bodies, and the make of our animal spirits, are concerned in tbis, and... | |
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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... 
