 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 sivua
...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 away."' — Essay, &c., book ii. chap. 10.] jects with which we arc surrounded, and about which we have every... | |
 | 1854 - 604 sivua
...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 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 sivua
...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 away."1 — Essay, &c., book ii. chap. 10.] jects with which we are surrounded, and about which we... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 sivua
...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...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear." He afterwards adds, that " we sometimes find a disease strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1855 - 428 sivua
...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 away We sometimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few... | |
 | 1864 - 332 sivua
...ignorance or forgetfulness. The pictures drawn in our minds, however, as Locke (we think it is) says, are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. A medical man who very seldom gets a poison case to treat might well be excused for forgetting at the... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1861 - 522 sivua
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 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 sivua
...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...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Whether the temper of the brain makes this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1864 - 362 sivua
...structure : — " 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 away. How much the constitution of our bodies and the make of our animal spirits are concerned in this, and... | |
 | 1864 - 654 sivua
...ignorance or forgetfulness. The pictures drawn in our minds, however, as Locke (we think it is) says, are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. A medical man who very seldom gets a poison case to treat might well be excused for forgetting at the... | |
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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... 
