 | John Locke - 1813 - 518 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - 1813 - 712 sider
...die before us : and our minds represent those tombs, to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the 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,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 sider
..."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...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... | |
 | 1816 - 746 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 388 sider
...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...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 sider
...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 - 1825 - 302 sider
...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...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 sider
...before us ; and our minds represent unto us their tombs, to which we are approaching ; where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are...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 sider
...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...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... | |
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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... 
