 | John William Burgon - 1846 - 88 ページ
...us WHY TASTE SHOULD BE CULTIVATED. 63 acquainted with it, is that organ which ' ' converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the...action without being tired or satiated with. its proper enjoyment."* Further, — whateVer our rulers may see fit to decide in this place, the plain matter... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 506 ページ
...sentence from Addison : " It (sight) 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." On the other hand, another author, speaking of the Trinity, says : " It is a mystery which we firmly... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1880 - 492 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 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." a This beautiful essay shows that Addison had carefully studied the nature of the sense of sight. Yet... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1882 - 420 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...action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments."3 This beautiful essay shows that Addison had carefully studied the nature of the sense... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1883 - 708 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 eonfined in its operations, to b the number, bulk, and distance of 1 These papers suggested Akenside's... | |
 | David H. MacAdam - 1883 - 160 ページ
...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...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. * * A beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration, and a description in Homer has... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 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...very much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects. Our sight seems designed to supply all... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 404 ページ
...delightful of all our senses. It nils 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 the slide 0n "ideas" and "distance" is the partial falling, say the falling third, while the cadence... | |
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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... 
