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" 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 of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated... "
Address at the Annual Meeting of the Educational Institute of Scotland ... - Page 37
by James Bryce - 1852 - 15 pages
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes...repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there re, mains nothing...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 pages
...seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes...repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed...repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes...repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first pccasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing...
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The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 4

William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 pages
...which are struck deepest ; and in minds the most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be SI'MI. N Those ideas that are often refreshed by a frequent return of the objects or actions that produce...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...if they be not some" times renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or " reflection on those kind of objects which at first occa'sioned them, the print wears out, and at last there re" mains nothing to be seen. Thus, the ideas, as well as " children of our youth, often die before...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive: so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or MVOL. i. H $ 5 . Thus many of those ideas, which were produced flection on those kind of objects which...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1819 - 516 pages
...seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed...repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects Which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing...
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 8

William Nicholson - 1821 - 358 pages
...which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen. Those ideas that are often refreshed by a frequent return of the objects or actions that produce them,...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 8

William Nicholson - 1821 - 356 pages
...which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen. Those ideas that are often refreshed by a frequent return of the objects or actious that produce them,...
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