 | William Russell - 1846 - 394 Seiten
...our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at th« greatest distance, and continues the longest in action...tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." The uniform recurrence, then, of a high pitch at the beginning of every sentence, must have the effect... | |
 | R. T. Kaufmann - 1877 - 120 Seiten
...indeed give us the idea of extension, figure, and all other properties of matter which are perceived by the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened in. its operations as regards number, bulk, and the distance of objects. Our sight... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 506 Seiten
...sentence from Addison : " It (sight) fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...and 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...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 Seiten
...and 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...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... | |
 | David H. MacAdam - 1883 - 160 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...eye, except colours; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 404 Seiten
...most 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...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... 
