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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 69
by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 252 pages
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas ..., Part 2

David Thomas - 1884 - 468 pages
...die before us, and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where although the brass, and the marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery is mouldered away." — John Locke. THE PENALTY OF PROFLIGACY. " How like a younger, or a prodigal,...
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Address at the Annual Meeting of the Educational Institute of Scotland ...

James Bryce - 1852 - 630 pages
...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. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed,...
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Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding

JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 pages
...Minds represent to us those tombs RETENTION. 55 to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours; and if not sometimes refreshed...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 32

1854 - 604 pages
...and our minds represent to us those tomba to which we are approaching, whero, though the brass and marble remain, yet. the inscriptions 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...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...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.] jects with which we arc surrounded, and about...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 4

Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...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. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed,...
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Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on ...

John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...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. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed,...
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Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Supplementary vol

Henry Rogers - 1855 - 428 pages
...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 We sometimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays. 1855

Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 pages
...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. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and if not sometimes refreshed,...
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Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of ...

Friedrich Max Müller - 1864 - 652 pages
...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. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours; and if not sometimes refreshed,...
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