...inversions. The following is an example of natural construction ; " Our sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideus, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without...

...prevail. The following sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to this role. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...longest in action without being tired or satiated wilh its proper enjoyments." This pissage follows the order of nature. First, we have the varie'.y...

...It would have had no other effect, but to add a word unnecessarily to the sentence. He proceeds : ' It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with it» objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or...

...he is going to illustrate. A first sentence should seldom be long, and never intricate. " It (ills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." This sentence is remarkably harmonious, and well constructed. It is entirely perspicuous. It is loaded...

...which fills the mind with the greatest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the remotest distance, and continues the longest in action without...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. Beside the glowing colours of the flowers, and the still enlivening verdure of the woods, the eye beholds...

...which fills the mind with the greatest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the remotest distance, and continues the longest in action without...being tired or satiated with its proper .enjoyments. Beside the glowing colours ot the flowers, and the still enlivening verdure of the woods, the eye beholds...

...conspicuous, because they prevail. -•oo APPENDIX. Clearness. conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at Ihe greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its...

...essays on the pleasures of the imagination, in the sixth volume of the Spectator. It begins thus : Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful of all our senses. This sentence is clear, precise, and simple. The author in a few plain words lays down the proposition,...

...this, the following sentence of Mr. Addison's may be given : " It fills the mind (speaking of sight) with the " largest variety of ideas ; converses with...being tired or satiated with its " proper enjoyments." Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper division of the members and pauses,...

...consults at the same time, the melodious flow of each. As in the second period of the same paper, — " It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...distance, and continues the longest in action without bemg tired or satiated with its proper eujoy mcuts." ' A single sentence should rarely consist of more...