 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 ページ
...delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of idioi ; converses •with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the...The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of exttn' •'//', shiijif, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except cdlouri. At the same time... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 ページ
...delightful of all our senses. It fills the luind with the largest VARIETY of ideas, converses with its objects at the GREATEST distance, and continues the...action without being- TIRED or satiated with its proper enjoymenU. The sense of feeling can indeed GIVE us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 ページ
...woman. (We acknowledge the beauty of a woman, and assent to a proposition.) TJie sense of feeling can give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter the eye. (Extension and shape are properties of matter and not ideas; and our senses give us ideas... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 648 ページ
...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...but at the same time, it is very much straitened and confmed in its operations,' &c. (Spectator, No. 411.) In this strain he always proceeds, following... | |
 | Ichabod Nichols - 1829 - 198 ページ
...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...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." T. Sturms, after giving a minute description of the eye, has expressed in his devout and animated manner,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 ページ
...feelingly. Id. Blind men say black feel» rough, and white feel» smooth. Dryden. The sense of feeling can give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours. Addiion's Spectator. Soon in »mart pain hefeeU the dire mistake. Lashes the wave, and beats the foamy... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 420 ページ
...delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest VABIETY of ideas, converses with its objects at the GREATEST distance, and continues the...extension, shape, and all other ideas that ENTER at the eye exj r MODULATION. REMEDIES. 97. cept colours. At the same time, it is very much CONFINED in its operations,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 ページ
...of Addison may be given. " It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." Here every reader must be sensible oi beauty in the just distribution of the pauses, and in the manner... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 ページ
...given. ' It fills the mind,' speaking of sight, ' with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the...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,... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 ページ
...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,... | |
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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... 
