 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...the inscriptions are effaced by time. How much the constitution of our bodies is concerned in this I shall not here inquire ; though it probably does influence...motion, and rest; — those which -constantly affect embodies, as heat and cold; — those which are the affections of all kinds of beings, as existence,... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1839 - 396 pages
...influence the memory, since we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever, in a few days, calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seem to be as lasting as if graved in marble." These images are excellent, if taken only as figures... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...influence the memory ; since we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those...which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble. BOYLE. (1627-1691.) [ROBERT BOYLE is generally spoken of in the same connexion with John Locke and... | |
 | William John Dawson - 1848 - 1186 pages
...refreshed, vanish and disappear How often we find disuse quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever, in a few days, calcine all...confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved on marble. — Locke. SEARCHING AFTER TRUTH. — If a matter be knotty, and the sense lies deep, the... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...influence the memory; since we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those...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 easy... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 pages
...influence the memory; since we sometimes find a disease quite strip the memory of all its ideas; and the flames of a fever, in a few days, calcine all those images into dust and confusion which seemed to be as lasting as if engraved on marble." The reader will observe... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 pages
...influence the Memory; since we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those...which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble. Constantly repeated ideas can scarce be lost.—But concerning the ideas themselves it is easy to remark,... | |
 | 1854 - 604 pages
...and the imagery moulders away We sometimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those...which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble. His sense of humor and his powers of raillery must have been very considerable. Nor had he only that... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...disappear.' He afterwards adds, that ' we sometimes find a disease strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever, in a few days, calcine all...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...influence the memory ; since we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to ilnst and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble. SKCT. 6. Constantly repeated... | |
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... we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble. 
