 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 - Side 130af John Locke - 1805 - 510 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 sider
...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...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 sider
...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 in a few... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 sider
...aptness of application, and completeness of structure: — " Our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where, though 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... | |
 | 1864 - 332 sider
...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... | |
 | 1860 - 514 sider
...' well as children of our youth, often die before us ; and our ' minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approach'ing; where, though the brass...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. ' It may seem probable that the constitution of the body does ' sometimes influence the memory, since... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1863 - 424 sider
...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 sider
...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...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 sider
...aptness of application, and completeness of structure : — " 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. How much the constitution of our bodies and the make of our animal spirits are concerned in this, and... | |
 | 1864 - 654 sider
...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... | |
 | 1865 - 940 sider
...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.' " I may observe, that, beautiful as is this language beyond anything else in the work of Locke, it... | |
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