 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 страници
...in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Thus the ideas as well as children of our youth often die...effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away."' — Essay, &c., book ii. chap. 10.] jects with which we arc surrounded, and about which we have every... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1854 - 898 страници
...footsteps or remaining characters of themselves than shadows do flying over a field of corn." — " The ideas, as well as children of our youth, often...are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. Pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, unless sometimes refreshed, vanish and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 страници
...in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Thus the ideas as well as children of our youth often die...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... | |
 | 1854 - 664 страници
...deseription 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...approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain, yct the inseriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away." Having considered this spiritual... | |
 | 1854 - 604 страници
...has a solemn cadence, a touching and mournful flow, exquisitely adapted to the sentiment : The ideaR as well as children of our youth 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 страници
...in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish 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 ; where, though the brass and marble... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1855 - 428 страници
...language has a solemn cadence, a touching and mournful flow, exquisitely adapted to the sentiment: — ' The ideas as well as children of our youth often die...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... | |
 | 1856 - 390 страници
...strong and beautiful contrast to the generally dry and unornamented style of that philosopher, — " the ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds resemble those sepulchres to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marble may remain,... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 страници
...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... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1863 - 424 страници
...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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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... 
