 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...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...Understanding and the Will are kept as it were in libera custodia to their objects of veritm et bonum, the Fancy is free from all engagements : it digs... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...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...Understanding and the Will are kept, as it were, in libera custodia to their objects of verum et bonum, the Fancy is free from all engagements : it digs... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 628 pages
...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 - Biography - 1831 - 340 pages
...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... | |
 | Tasmania - 1834 - 374 pages
...— 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 pages
...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...Understanding and the Will are kept, as it were, in libera custodia to their objects of verum et bonum, the Fancy is free from all engagements: it digs... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 pages
...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...Understanding and the Will are kept, as it were, in libera custodia to their objects of verum et bonum, the Fancy is free from all engagements : it digs... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1836 - 404 pages
...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...Understanding and the Will are kept, as it were, in lilera custodia to their objects of verum et bonum, the Fancy is free from all engagements : it digs... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...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...understanding and the will are kept, as it were, in libera custodia to their objects of verum et bonum, the fancy is free from all engagements : it digs... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...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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Philosophers place it in the rear of the head, and it seems the mine of memory lies there, because there men naturally dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss. 
