 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 Seiten
...sometimes find a disease strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever, in a few days, caleine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved on marble." Such is the poverty of language, that it is, perhaps, impossible to find words with respect... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 Seiten
...marble, in others like freestone, and in others little better than sand, I shall not here enquire: though- it may seem probable, that the constitution...which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble. 465. PREFACE TO ENDYMION. Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - 1865 - 280 Seiten
...disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those to dust and confusion which seemed to be as lasting as if engraved in marble.' But no one more readily than Locke himself would explain that this history of... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 Seiten
...and the make of our animal spirits are concerned in this ; and whether the temper of the brain makes this difference, that in some it retains the characters...confusion which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.6 Constantly repeated ideas can scarce be lost. — But concerning the ideas themselves it is... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 592 Seiten
...drawn on it like marble ; in others like freestone ; and in others, little better than sand." . . . . " We oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind...which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble." Again, the ideas are, "very often roused and tumbled out of their dark cells into open daylight by... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1873 - 738 Seiten
...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....something which we perceive at the time by our senses. We recognize a particular sensuous impression as falling under the general category of triangle. Here... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1874 - 592 Seiten
...little better than sand..' . . . . " We oftentimes find a discase quite strip the mind of all its idcas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all...which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble." Again, the ideas are, "very often roused and tumbled out of thcir dark cells into open daylight by... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1874 - 606 Seiten
...discase quite strip the mind of all its idcas, and the flames of a fever in a few days caleine all these images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble." Again, the idcas are, " very often roused and tumbled out of their dark cells into open daylight by... | |
 | George Harris - 1876 - 588 Seiten
...anil the make of our animal spirits are concerned in this, and whether the temper of the brain makes this difference, that in some it retains the characters...which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble." Locke. Essuy on the Under standing, b. ii. c. I. e. 5. " If the pith of the brain contribute to the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 Seiten
...make this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn on it like marble, in others'like freestone, and in others little better than sand,...which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble. LOCKE. Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared,... | |
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... this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn on it like marble ; in others like freestone ; and in others, little better than sand, I shall not here inquire : though it may seem probable, that the constitution of the body does sometimes... 
