 | Robert P Clapp - 1881 - 202 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. '- It needs no word of mine," said the Mayor, " on such an occasion as this, to remind the children... | |
 | Cambridge, Mass - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1881 - 194 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. " It needs no word of mine," said tbe Mayor, " on such an occasion as this, to remind the children... | |
 | New Brunswick. Board of Education - Education - 1889 - 1004 pages
...represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marble remains, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away." Thurlow Weed is said to have had a remarkably poor memory in his youth. He was conscious of his defect,... | |
 | William James - Psychology - 1890 - 720 pages
...before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are fast approaching. where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are...The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors; and, if not somethnes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution of onr bodies,... | |
 | William James - Psychology - 1890 - 718 pages
...tombs to which we are fast approaching: where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscription? are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away....The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors; and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution of our bodies,... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 716 pages
...before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are fast approaching; where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are...effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The picture* drawn in onr minds are laid in fading colors; and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and... | |
 | William James - Psychology - 1890 - 712 pages
...before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are fast approaching; where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are...effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictureĞ drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors; and, if not sometime! refreshed, vanish and... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - Philosophy - 1890 - 324 pages
...before us, and our minds thus 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 Especially in that remote rural scene, the tomb of Locke may touch the imagination of the wayfarer.... | |
 | Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - English poetry - 1890 - 534 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. l.OCKE. at non — quis haec tam finxerit inscius ? — possunt ad urnam plangere talia • tam bruta... | |
 | Victoria Claflin Woodhull, Lady Tennessee Claflin Cook - Ethics - 1890 - 640 pages
...and our minds represent those tombs to which we are all approaching, where, though the brass and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. How happy, then, should he or she be who can claim exemption from this common law of decay, and bike... | |
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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... 
