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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. "
Rosamund Gray, Essays, Letters, and Poems - Page 129
by Charles Lamb - 1856 - 425 pages
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The Marvellous Wisdom and Quaint Conceits of Thomas Fuller, D.D.: Being "The ...

Thomas Fuller, Adelaide L. J. Gosset - Characters and characteristics - 1893 - 242 pages
...sense of the soul, for a while retaining and examining things brought in thither by the common sense. It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul, for whilst the understanding and the will are kept as it were in libera custodia to their objects of verum...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 5

David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 460 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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Miscellaneous prose (1798-1834)

Charles Lamb - 1913 - 596 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 -uerum et botmm, the Fancy is free from all engagements : it digs...
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Critical essays

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 424 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...
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Miscellaneous prose, 1798-1834

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 636 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...
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Miscellaneous prose, 1798-1834

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Authors, English - 1903 - 634 pages
...after." Judges in capital cases. — " O let him take heed how he strikes, that hath a dead hand." seems the mine of memory lies there, because there...Understanding and the Will are kept, as it were, •in libera cvxtodia to their objects of verum et bonum, the Fancy is free from all engagements : it digs...
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Rab and His Friends: And Other Papers and Essays

John Brown - Dogs - 1907 - 402 pages
...Thomas Fuller calls it, " that inward sense of the soul, its most boundless and restless faculty ; for while the understanding and the will are kept as it were in liberA custodiA to their objects of verum et bonum, it is free from all engagements — digs without...
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Rab & his friends, & other papers & essays. Repr

John Brown - 1907 - 400 pages
...Thomas Fuller calls it, " that inward sense of the soul, its most boundless and restless faculty ; for while the understanding and the will are kept as it were in liberft. custodicl to their objects of verum et bonum, it is free from all engagements — digs without...
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Horæ subsecivæ v. 2, 1910, Volume 2

John Brown - 1910 - 506 pages
...as Thomas Fuller calls it, ' that inward sense of the soul, its most boundless and restless faculty; for while the understanding and the will are kept, as it were, in liberA custorfift to their objects of verum et bcmum, it is free from all engagements — digs without...
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Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to Clarendon

Jacob Zeitlin - Civilization, Modern - 1926 - 408 pages
...sense of the soul, for a while retaining and examining things brought in thither by the common sense. It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul: for whilst the understanding and the will are kept as it were in libera custodia to their objects of verum...
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