 | Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - France - 1794 - 542 pages
...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 away. In some, says he, the mind retains the characters drawn on it, like marble ; in others, like free-stone... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 562 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are litid m fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, "vanish... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...Locke's Works, vol. ip 129, Book 2d. Chapter 23d. folio edition of 1 7 H. 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 refreshed, vanish... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...* Locke's Works, vol. ip 129, Book 3d. Chapter 23d. folio edition of 1714. 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 refreshed, vanish... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 pages
...represent to us those tornbs, to which we are approaching ; where 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 refreshed, vanish... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...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 away. How much the constitution of our bodies are concerned in this, and whether the temper of the brain... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...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 away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors ; and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...represent to us those tombs to which we are ap" preaching; where, 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 Jading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, "vanish... | |
 | Gregor von Feinaigle - Memory - 1813 - 516 pages
...minds represent those tombs, to which we are approaching ; where though the bras* 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 refieshed, vanish... | |
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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... 
