 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 pages
...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." II. But I am to enquire, secondly, into the true cause of human frailty and decay. To impute effects... | |
 | Roscoe Goddard Greene - English language - 1830 - 124 pages
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which they are approaching ; where though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery has mouldered away. HONOR. Would you not think it an honor to be employed by God in creating a world... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1831 - 416 pages
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which they are approaching ; where, though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery has mouldered away.' This comparison, he is told, is naturally suggested ; and in connexion with the... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...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...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid on in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.— LOCKE. Dreams may be... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...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...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid on in fading colours, and, if not sometimes re freshed, vanish and disappear. LOCKE. Incredulity is... | |
 | Charles Henry Ackerley - Bridges - 1834 - 100 pages
...in the headsheets of whale-boats, it is cased in, or placed each side of the stem, on the outside. " Pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear/'—Locke. To the intellect of the Inventor of Lithography, (" SENNEFELDER,") the author... | |
 | Great Britain - 1837 - 392 pages
...die before us ; and our minds represent those tombs lo 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 on in fading colors, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.— Locke. INCREDULITY is... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which they are approaching; where, though the brass and the mar-ble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery has mouldered away." This beautiful passage is introduced to show, that it is essential to a good comparison,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which they are approaching ; where, though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery has mouldered away." This beautiful passage is introduced to show, that it is essential to a good comparison,... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - Philosophy - 1839 - 406 pages
...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...the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our mind* are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much 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... 
