...intelligible, pathetick, and richly figured. "The memory in some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant...deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that the nice and difficult task wa> to have been undertaken by one of the moft luminous mindi of the pretent...

...intelligible, pathetick, and richly figured. "The memory in some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant...of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the mosl: retentive; so that the nice and difficult task was to have been undertaken by one of the most...

...minds, than in those of people born blind. 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...

...call it, are so disordered as not to perform their function, they have no postern to be admitted by. " n : those who had little knowledge of human life, and of the manne that are struck deepest. . The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours. Whether the...

...depth and thus for the preservation of ideas, and indeed a few chapters later Locke acknowledges that "there seems to be a constant decay of all our Ideas, even of those which are struck deepest... so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated Exercise of the Senses, or Reflection . . . the...

...to time and its contents are ephemeral: The Memory in some Men, 'tis 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...

...variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea. Essay Concerning Human Understanding II 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...

...is very tenacious, even to a Miracle: But vet there seems to be a constant decay of all our IdeiW, even of those which are struck deepest, and in Minds...retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed bv repeated Exercise of the Senses, or Reflection on those kind of Objects, which at first occasioned...

...to mnemonics. Locke, like Beattie, characterized the memory as "very tenacious." But emphasizing the "constant decay of all our Ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in the Mind the most retentive," he prescribed writing as the antidote to forgetfulness. As "deposition,"...

...Wolfe's paper in ' Science ' for Nov. 19, 1886. The original is ia Psychologische Studien, in. 884 ff. even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be nQt sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which...