| Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 páginas
...It would have had no other effect, but to add a word unnecessarily to the sentence. He proceeds : " It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, withoiu being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." This sentence deserves attention, as remarkably... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1824 - 314 páginas
...is an example of natural construction : " Our sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest...converses with its objects at the greatest distance, end continues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 278 páginas
...language, thoueh there are manv inversions. '• Our sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest...greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, w ithout being tired, or satiated uith its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, mdeed, give... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 páginas
...inversions. Strength.) PERSPICUITY, gfc. 233 "Our sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest...converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and con tinues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyment?. The... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 páginas
...diminishes, to the close. EXAMPLE. OUR SIGHT IS THE MOST PERFECT, AND MOST DELIGHTFUL, or ALL OUR SEHSES. IT FILLS THE MIND WITH THE LARGEST VARIETY OF IDEAS,...CONVERSES WITH ITS OBJECTS AT THE GREATEST DISTANCE, AND coJSTINCES THE LONGEST in ACTI01J WITHOUT BEING TIRED OR SATIATED WITH ITS PROPER ENJOYMENTS. THE SENSE... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 páginas
...diminishes, to the close. EXAMPLE. OUR SIGHT IS THE MOST PERFECT, AND MOST DELIGHTFUL, o» ALL OCR BESSES. IT FILLS THE MIND WITH THE LARGEST VARIETY OF IDEAS,...CONVERSES WITH ITS OBJECTS AT THE GREATEST DISTANCE, AMD COHTINCES TUB LONGK8T IN ACTKMT WITHOUT BKI.VG TIRKD OR SATIATED WITH ITS PROPER ENJOYMENTS. THE... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 páginas
...woman. (We acknowledge the beauty of a woman, and assent to a proposition.) TJie sense of feeling can give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter the eye. (Extension and shape are properties of matter and not ideas; and our senses give us ideas... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 páginas
...character, as to exhibit the true pronunciation. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of idioi ; converses •with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the longest in action,... | |
| Ichabod Nichols - 1829 - 198 páginas
...thought is beautifully suggested by Addison. " Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses ; it fills the mind with the largest...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." T. Sturms, after giving a minute description of the eye, has expressed in his devout and animated manner,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 páginas
...feelingly. Id. Blind men say black feel» rough, and white feel» smooth. Dryden. The sense of feeling can give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours. Addiion's Spectator. Soon in »mart pain hefeeU the dire mistake. Lashes the wave, and beats the foamy... | |
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