 | 1829 - 696 pagina’s
...be carefully observed. The beauty of order strikingly appears in the following sentence. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." First, we have the rise of ideas from sensible objects, and subsequently their progress and duration.... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 pagina’s
...this, the following sentence of Mr. Addison may be given. " It " fills the mind," speaking of sight, " with the ** largest variety of ideas ; converses with...being tired or " satiated with its proper enjoyments." Here every reader must be sensible of a beauty, both in the just division of the members and pauses,... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pagina’s
...ON THE PLEASURES OP THE IMAGINATION. No. 41 1. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest...The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of ex. tension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 pagina’s
...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...indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and ail other ideas that enter at the eye except colours ; but, at the same time, it is very much straitened... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 pagina’s
...an example of natural construction : " Oi'.r sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest...variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the gVeatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with its proper... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 pagina’s
...most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variely of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest...and continues the longest in action, without being lived, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pagina’s
...springs Presume to peep at coy virgin Naiads. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at tha greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1807 - 290 pagina’s
...prevail. The following sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects a: the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with... | |
 | 1807 - 530 pagina’s
...sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with ihe largest •variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and con'.inuco the longest in action, without bfing tired or satiated with its proper enjoyment." This... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pagina’s
...this, the following Sentence of Mr. Addison's may be given : " It fills the mind (speaking of sight) with the largest " variety of ideas; converses with its objects at the greatest dis" tance ; and continues the longest in action, without being " tired or satiated with its proper... | |
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OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its... 
