 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...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Seite 121von Hugh Blair - 1817 - 500 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1729 - 320 Seiten
...its proper Enjoyments. The Senfe of Feeling can indeed give us a Notion of Exteniion, Shape, and nil other Ideas that enter at the Eye, except Colours ; but at the fame time it is very much ftreightned and confined in its Operations, to the number, bulk, and diftJnee... | |
 | 1767 - 334 Seiten
...with its proper enjoyments. The fenfe of feeling can indeed give us a no. tion of extenfion, fliape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the fame time it is / very much ftraitned and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and diftance... | |
 | 1829 - 696 Seiten
...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." First, we have the rise of ideas from sensible objects, and subsequently their progress and duration.... | |
 | 1778 - 342 Seiten
...fatiated with its proper enjoyments, The fenfe of feeling c^n indeed give us a notion of extenfion, Ihape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the fame time it is very much ftraitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and diftance... | |
 | 1786 - 670 Seiten
...proper enjoyment«« The lente ut feeling eau indeed give u» ve ui a notion of extenfion, fliape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours; but at the fame time it is very much ftj aliened and confined in it's openations, to tlie number, bulk, and diftamce... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 Seiten
...fatiated with its proper enjoyments. The fenfe of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extenfion, fhape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the fame time it is very much ftraitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk, and diftance... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 Seiten
...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." Here every reader must be sensible of a beauty, both in the just division of the members and pauses,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1802 - 328 Seiten
...occurs immediately afterward. Tin fenfe affecting fan, indeed, give us a notion of extenJion,jbape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but, at the fame time, it is 'very much Jfraitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and dijlance... | |
 | 1803 - 376 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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