 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 sidor
...the mind with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the longest in action, without being...satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of fueling cm indeed give us a notion of extension, shdpe, and all other ideas that enter at the eye,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 sidor
...(ie sight) 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. "| Analysis. Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper division of the members... | |
 | 1871 - 882 sidor
...the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its oljjc-cts at the greatest distance, and continues the longest In action without being tired or satiated with its pi^per enjnyments. MOOS'S PHASES. Bos-Ton. ! N h. -л -Y. .UK. WASU'UTO». D. в II. M. IL M. < IL... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1874 - 420 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." ends a sentence be emphatic. Such a sentence, therefore, as tha following, is wanting m harmony: "It... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1875 - 458 sidor
...employed it to avoid the repetition of the wore c;<-eat, which occurs immediately afterward. " The seise of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and all othar ideas that enter at the eye, except colors ; but, at the same time, it is very much straitened... | |
 | R. T. Kaufmann - 1877 - 120 sidor
...indeed give us the idea of extension, figure, and all other properties of matter which are perceived by the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened in. its operations as regards number, bulk, and the distance of objects. Our sight seems to supply... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 506 sidor
...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." On the other hand, another author, speaking of the Trinity, says : " It is a mystery which we firmly... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1880 - 492 sidor
...us the notion of ideas, and that colors are an idea. His meaning, we may be equally sure was this : The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension and of shape, and every other idea that can enter at the eye, except that of color. A little farther... | |
 | 1881 - 636 sidor
...Touch. We find it so in Reid, and we find it so in Addison. The latter says (Spectator, No. 411)—"The sense of Feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours; but, at the same time, it is very much straitened... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1882 - 412 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." a This beautiful essay shows that Addison had carefully studied the nature of the sense of sight. Yet... | |
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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... 
