| Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 Seiten
...strikes,' that hath a dead hand." Memory. — " Philosophers place it in the rear of the head, audit seems the mine of memory lies there, because there...dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss." Fancy.—" It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul; for while the Understanding and... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 Seiten
...cases. — " O let him take heed how he strikes, that hath a dead hand." Memory. — " Philosophers place it in the rear of the head, and it seems the...dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss." Fancy. — " It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul ; for while the Understanding... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 628 Seiten
...speculations on ' Memory,' Fuller informs us that ' Plu' losuphers place it in the rere of the bead ; and it seems the ' mine of memory lies there, because...naturally dig ' for it, scratching it when they are at a luese.' He bears, in a subsequent section, a very forcible protest against the common and offensive... | |
| Thomas Fuller - 1831 - 340 Seiten
...degree further, making experience the mother of arts, memory the parent of experience. Philosophers place it in the rear of the head ; and it seems the mine of memory lies there, because there naturally men dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss. This again is two-fold: one, the simple... | |
| 1834 - 374 Seiten
...— DRVDEN'S PLUTARCH, VOL. ip 91,2. '•.•--;• EXTRACTS FROM FULLER. Philosophers place memory in the rear of the head, and it seems the mine of memory lies here, because these men naturally dig for it — scratching it when they are at a loss. Fancy is the... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 376 Seiten
...capital cases.—" O let him take heed how he strikes, that hath a dead hand." Memory.—" Philosophers place it in the rear of the head, and it seems the...dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss." Fancy.—" It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul; for while the Understanding and... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 Seiten
...cases. — " O let him take heed how he strikes, that hath a dead hand." Memory. — " Philosophers place it in the rear of the head, and it seems the...dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss." Fancy. — " It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul; for while the Understanding... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1836 - 404 Seiten
...cases. — " O let him take heed how he strikes, that hath a dead hand." Memory. — " Philosophers place it in the rear of the head, and it seems the...dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss." Fancy. — " It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul ; for while the Understanding... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 Seiten
...cases. — " Oh let him take heed how he strikes, that hath a dead hand." Memory. — " Philosophers place it in the rear of the head, and it seems the...dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss." Fancy. — " It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul ; for while the understanding... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 Seiten
...degree further, making experience the mother of arts, memory the parent of experience. Philosophers place it in the rear of the head ; and it seems the mine of memory lies there, because there naturally men dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss. This again is twofold ; one, the simple... | |
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