 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...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Сторінка 57автори: Hugh Blair - 1811 - 838 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Ichabod Nichols - 1831 - 224 стор.
...beautifully suggested by Addison. " Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful af all our senses ; it fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its object at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 стор.
...this, the following sentence from 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.' Every reader must be sensible of a beauty there, both in the proper division of the members and pauses,... | |
 | 1832 - 280 стор.
...Untrodden yet: 'tis sweet to visit first Untouch'd and virgin streams, and 'quench niy thirst. CBEICH. largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects...continues the longest in action without being; tired or'satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feel- *• ing. can indeed give us a nation of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1832 - 242 стор.
...variety, is more commonly applied to extent than number. It is plain, however, that he employed it to 10 " It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...converses with its objects at the greatest distance, ana continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." ,... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 стор.
...all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest VARIETY oi ideas, converses with its objects at GREATEST distance, and continues the longest in action...being TIRED or satiated with its proper enjoyments " There is one other manner of reading deserving of notice. It is sometimes adopted in the pulpit,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 234 стор.
...of natural construction: "Our eight 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 ohjects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without heing tired, or satiated... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 стор.
...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, converses with its objects at the greatest distance,and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.'... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 стор.
...following syllables,—thus: 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 object at the GREATEST distance, and continues the longest in action, without being TIRED or satiated... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 стор.
...natural construction : " Our sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...being tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 244 стор.
...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,...continues the longest in action, without being tired or satir.ted with its proper enjoyments." This passage follows the order of nature. First, we have the... | |
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