| 1829 - 696 Seiten
...be carefully observed. The beauty of order strikingly appears in the following sentence. " Our sight 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... | |
| 1803 - 376 Seiten
...to visit first Untouch'dand virgin streams, and cjaench my thirst. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind...the largest "variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 Seiten
...; juvat integros accedere fonteis ; Atque haurire • « • LUCR. R 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... | |
| 1804 - 412 Seiten
...candour. ADDISON, ON THE PLEASURES OP THE IMAGINATION. No. 41 1. 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... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 Seiten
...see quite a different order in the construction of Sentences. " Our 4* sight is the most perfect, and most delightful of all our senses. " It fills the...the largest variety of ideas, converses * with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the long*' est m action, without being tired, or satiated... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 Seiten
...reserved for the conclusion. As an instance of this, the following sentence 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 " longest in action without being tired or satiated... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 Seiten
...converses with its objects at tfie greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed giva us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 Seiten
...though there are many inversions. The following is an example of natural construction : " Our sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all...with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and contmues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated... | |
| John Walker - 1810 - 394 Seiten
...this pronuncia.tion is eligible, and practise upon them. EXAMPLES. 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 662 Seiten
...laudis, et artes Ingrcdior, sanctos ausus rccludere fontes. Virg. Our eight 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... | |
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