 | Joseph Addison - 1889 - 556 sidor
...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 . |>ro;>er enjoyments." A single sentence should rarely consist of more ian three members, and naturally... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - 1889 - 216 sidor
...mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with objects at the greatest distance, and continues longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." But there is seeing, and there 9 is seeing ; there is a seeing that sees, and there is a seeing that... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 sidor
...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. — Addison, SILENCE. Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.... | |
 | A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 sidor
...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...and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colors ; but at the same time it is very much straitened, and confined in its operations to the number,... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 316 sidor
...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...except Colours; but at the same time it is very much streightned and con,* fined in its Operations, to the Number, Bulk, and Distance of its particular... | |
 | Hottingen, Lesezirkel, Stiftung von Schnyder von Wartensee - 1900 - 470 sidor
...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. "1) Spect. 411; ... by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes... | |
 | Perkins School for the Blind - 1901 - 952 sidor
...in the cells of the hive of intellect for the aliment of the indwelling brood of human faculties. It continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. Through its channel knowledge of the outer world flows more abundantly to the mind than by any other... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 218 sidor
...with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues longest in action without being tired or satiated...and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colors ; but at the same time it is very much strained, and confined in its operations, to the number,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 sidor
...the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its 5 proper enjoyments. The sense of Feeling can indeed...except colours ; but at the same time it is very much streightned and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 422 sidor
...other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much streightned and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk,...distance of its particular objects. Our Sight seems 10 designed to supply all these defects, and may be considered as a more delicate and diffusive kind... | |
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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... 
