 | English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...void of them, as if they had never been there The memory of some, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle: but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | George Harris - 1876 - 588 pages
...faculties are nevertheless ever in active • " The memory of some, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...minds, than in those of people born blind. The memory in some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes re. newed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...Landon, History of the Lyre. DECAY OF MEMORY. THE memory of some, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle : but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive, so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflections on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1880 - 684 pages
...Understanding ' (ii. 10, 5) : The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; hut yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our...ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in ininds the most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...themselves than shadows do flying over a field of corn. . . . The memory of some men is very tenacious, even ey do not find, and by show of antiquity to introduce novelt nil our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive ; so that if... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...epitaphs, but characters written in the dust ? ic. IRVING — Tüte Sketch Book. Westminster DECEIT. There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas;...retentive, so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercises of the sense», or reflection un those kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...IBVING— Vie Sketch Book. Westminster Aobty. DECAY. DECEIT. 87 There seems to be a constant decay of nil our ideas; even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive, so that if they te not sometimes renewed by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...There seems to be a constant docay of all oar ideas; even of those which are struck • [•••', , slightly handled, in discourse. t. Richard 111. Act III. Sc. 7. It is a by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...themselves than shadows do flying over a field of corn. . . The memory of some men is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned... | |
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The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest... 
