 | 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...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 pages
...Judges in 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...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 - 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 - 348 pages
...sets it one degree further, making experience the mother of arts, memory the parent of experience. Philosophers place it in the rear of the head ; and...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... | |
 | 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
...Judges in 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...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 pages
...Judges in 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...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 - English essays - 1836 - 404 pages
...Judges in 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...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 pages
...in capital 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...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 - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...sets it in one degree further, making experience the mother of arts, memory the parent of experience. Philosophers place it in the rear of the head ; and...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. 
