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" In all these cases, ideas in the mind quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of the understanding, leaving no more footsteps or remaining characters of themselves than shadows do flying over fields of corn ; and the mind is as void of them as if they... "
The governess in Egypt. Harem life in Egypt and Constantinople - Page 258
by Emmeline Lott - 1865
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...temper of the body or some other default, the memory is very weak. In all these cases ideas in the mind quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of the understanding,...characters of themselves than shadows do flying over fields of corn, and the mind is as void of them as if they never had been there. Thus many of those...
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A companion to the Higher English grammar

Alexander Bain - 1874 - 416 pages
...the commencement of the second member, which repeats in greater detail the same fact of borrowing. ' Ideas quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of...themselves than shadows do flying over a field of corn '. Better—' Ideas quickly fade ; they often vanish, &c. '. The participle ' leaving ' is correct...
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The Christian course, or Helps to the practice of meditation, Volume 124

Thomas May - 1875 - 136 pages
...temper of the body, or some other fault, the memory is very weak. In all these cases, ideas in the mind quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of the understanding,...characters of themselves, than shadows do flying over fields of corn ; and the mind is as void of them, as if they had never been there." — Booh 2, chap....
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...charity, must begin at home. From this centre our sympathies may extend in an ever-extending circle. LAMB. Ideas quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of...themselves than shadows do flying over a field of corn. . . . The memory of some men is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...
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Typical selections from the best English authors, with ..., Volume 1

English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...temper of the body, or some other fault, the memory is very weak. In all these cases, ideas in the mind quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of the understanding,...characters of themselves, than shadows do flying over fields of corn; and the mind is as void of them, as if they had never been there The memory of some,...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Notes and Illustrations of ...

John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...temper of the body or some other default, the memory is very weak. In all these cases, ideas in the mind quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of the understanding,...characters of themselves, than shadows do flying over fields of com : aiid the mind is ns void of them as if they never had been there. 5. Thus many of those...
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Worthies of Science

John Stoughton - Scientists - 1879 - 358 pages
...attention and memory he makes profound remarks. For want of attention, he observes, " ideas in the mind quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of the understanding,...characters of themselves than shadows do flying over fields of corn." " The ideas, as well as 1 Book ii. chap. 1. 2 See Stewart's Dissertation, p. 110 et...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...must begin at home.. From this centre our sympathies may extend in an ever-extending circle. LAMB. understanding ratifies, . . . The memory of some men is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...
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A Thousand Thoughts from Various Authors

Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...in marble. Locke, Essay on the Human Understanding, b. ii. chap. x. FADING MEMORY. IDEAS in the mind quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of the understanding,...characters of themselves than shadows do flying over fields of corn ; and the mind is as void of them as if they never had been there. Locke, Essay on the...
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English Language and Literary Criticism: English prose

James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...connection with the main argument. We quote, however, the following thoughts on the fading of ideas: Ideas quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of...themselves than shadows do flying over a field of corn. . . The memory of some men is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant...
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