 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 trang
...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 pictures drawn in our minds are " laid in fading colour es, and, if not sometimes refreshed, " vanish and disappear.' He afterwards adds, that, < we... | |
 | John Martin Frederick Wright - 1827 - 320 trang
...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.'' Book II. c. 10. Distinguish between the retentive power of Memory, and the other powers of that faculty.... | |
 | John Martin F. Wright - 1827 - 632 trang
...our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marK remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away." Book II. c. 10. Distinguish between the retentive power of Memory, and the other powers of that faculty.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 trang
...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 pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors, and if not sometunes refreshed, vanish and disappear." He afterwards adds, that " we sometimes... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 trang
...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 pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colors, and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear" He afterwards adds, that " we sometimes... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1829 - 654 trang
...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...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are I aid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How mucli the constitution... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 trang
...palms, tho" under weights they did not stand. Still thrived ; no Winter could his laurels fade. Dry den. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading...if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Loche. Where either through the temper of the body, or some other default, the memory is very weak,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 trang
...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. * (Font JVote.) In ordinary cases, I confess, I strongly suspect... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 trang
...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. * (Font JVofe.) In ordinary cases, I confess, I strongly suspect... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 trang
...minds of the aged are like the tombs to which th.ey 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 shew, that it is a trait of a good comparison,... | |
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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... 
