 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...away. »". SAH' L JOHHSOH— Vanity of Human Wishes. L. 293. There seems to be a constant decay of alt ed bower, Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun, by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | Joseph Battell - 1903 - 722 pages
...involuntarily he has implied this. He says : 'The memory of some, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even to those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - 1904 - 352 pages
...i, § 56, p. 204.] [NOTE.—// with a negative, as if not, has nearly or quite the force of unless. 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 senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 382 pages
...minds, than in those of people born blind. The memory of some men, 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 kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 424 pages
...minds, than in those of people born blind. The memory of some men, 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 kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pages
...Singhalese, who surround the fierce Kandyans, the peach-stone, — a very helpful figure. Again Locke says : "There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those that are struck deepest. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours. Whether the temper... | |
 | William James - 1918 - 746 pages
...memorable page of his dear old book : "The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive: •o that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of tha lenses, or reflection on those... | |
 | Charles Clinton Peters - 1918 - 460 pages
...refreshed, vanish and disappear. . . . The memory of some men is tenacious even to a miracle : hut yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are stuck deepest and in the minds the most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. SAMUEL JOHNSON — Vanity of Human Wishes. L. 293. 24 Despairing Lover. L. 57. s The flowers of the forest...о Why does the rose her grateful fragrance yield, by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - 1914 - 922 pages
...touching passage on the decay of memory : ' The memory of some men. It is true, IB 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 kinds 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... 
