 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 468 sidor
...this sentence there is an inaccuracy in syntax. It is very proper to say, " altering and compound" ing those images which we have once received " into all the varieties of picture and vision :" But we can with no propriety say, " retaining them into " all the varieties ;" and yet, according... | |
 | 1824 - 268 sidor
...paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasions. We can not indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through...picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imaginationj for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - 298 sidor
..."Neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things," &c. would have been regular. " We. have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...received, into all the varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering and compounding those images which we have once received, into... | |
 | Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 sidor
...compounding them into all the varieties of picture, and vision: but the sentence would stand better thus; We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of forming them into all the varieties of picture, and vision. Observe: the error of the foregoing... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 278 sidor
...and compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vision , or, perhaps, better thus : i. \ye have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of forming them into all the varieties of picture and vision." INTERJECTION. For the syntax of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 328 sidor
...compounding them into all the varieties oi pv,.uire and vision ;" or, perhaps, better thus : " We ha v« the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of (bribing them into all the varieties of picture and vision." fNTEKJKCTION. For the syntax of... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1830 - 122 sidor
...whose hands is wickedness, and their right hand is full of gifts." What should be said instead of, " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...received, into all the varieties of picture and vision" ? PROSODY PBONUNCIATION. Accent. FOR what purpose is accent used ? Has every word in our language of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 sidor
...natural. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy, that did not make its first entrance thrtttgh the sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering,...compounding those images which we have once received, inle all the varieties of picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for, by... | |
 | 1832 - 280 sidor
...paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasions. We can not indeed have / a single image in the fancy that did not make its ' first entrance through...all the varieties of picture and vision that, are •4* most agreeable to the imagination; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon ia capable of entertaining... | |
 | Lindley Murray, H. T. N. Benedict - 1832 - 204 sidor
...refnrmition of this degenerate age is ahnost lohe despaired of, yet, &c, . "We have the power of retainmg, altering, and compounding, those images which we have...received, into all the varieties of picture and vision." This sentence is highly improper, as will appear from the following investigation. We can alter and... | |
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We cannot indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision... 
