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... An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 130by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 518 pages
...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...imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds arc laid in fading colors ; and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution... | |
| Gregor von Feinaigle - Memory - 1813 - 516 pages
...before us : and our minds represent those tombs, to which we are approaching ; where though the bras* and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced...minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refieshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution of our bodies, and the make of our animal... | |
| Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...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 the brass...inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulxters away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed,... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 pages
...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 efikced, and the imagery mouldered away. The pictures in our minds are drawn in... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...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 "...moulders away. " The pictures drawn in our minds are laid infad" ing colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish " and disappear." He afterwards adds, that... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 746 pages
...on fo thin, as not to obfcure or conceal any part of the fines. Watts. 10. To paint; to enamel. — The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not fometimes refreflied, vanilh and difappear. Locke, n. To put into any date of quiet.— They bragged,... | |
| 1854 - 718 pages
...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...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... | |
| John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 388 pages
...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...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 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... | |
| Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...well as the 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...not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear." How sublime this allusion to our final destiny, and the fleeting nature of those little concerns with which... | |
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