 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 420 pagine
...the close-. EXAMPLE. OUR SIGHT IS THE MOST PERFECT, AND MOST DELIGHTFUL, OF ALL OUR SENSES. IT FILLS THE MIND WITH THE LARGEST VARIETY OF IDEAS, CONVERSES...ACTION WITHOUT BEING TIRED OR SATIATED WITH ITS PROPER ENJOYMEHTS. THE SENSE OF FEELING CAN INDEED GIVE US A NOTION OF EXTENSION, SHAPE, AND ALL OTHER IDEAS... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 pagine
...perfect and delightful there is no contrast, such a repetition is unnecessary. He proceeds: It fills the mind with. the largest variety of ideas, converses...objects at the greatest distance, and continues the What is the subject of this lecture ? — What shull we now commence ? — What will this suggest?... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 pagine
...present case, there being no contrast, such. a repetition was unnecessary. He proceeds : ' It fills 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 possesses, indeed, most of the properties... | |
 | 1832 - 280 pagine
...Untrodden yet: 'tis sweet to visit first Untouch'd and virgin streams, and 'quench niy thirst. CBEICH. largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects...continues the longest in action without being; tired or'satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feel- *• ing. can indeed give us a nation of... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pagine
...all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest VARIETY oi ideas, converses with its objects at GREATEST distance, and continues the longest in action...being TIRED or satiated with its proper enjoyments " There is one other manner of reading deserving of notice. It is sometimes adopted in the pulpit,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1832 - 242 pagine
...commonly applied to extent than number. It is plain, however, that he employed it to 10 " It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, ana continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." ,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 pagine
...the close. EXAMPLE. OUR SIGHT IS THE MOST PERFECT, AND MOST DELIGHTFUL, OP ALL OCR SENSES. IT FILLS THE MIND WITH THE LARGEST VARIETY OF IDEAS, CONVERSES...BEING TIRED OR SATIATED WITH ITS PROPER ENJOYMENTS. THE SENSE OF FEELING CAN INDEED GIVE US A NOTION OF EXTENSION, SHAPE, A-"CD ALL OTHER IDEAS THAT ENTER... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pagine
...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 its objects at the greatest distance,and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.'... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pagine
...construction : " Our sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...being tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 244 pagine
...The following sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...continues the longest in action, without being tired or satir.ted with its proper enjoyments." This passage follows the order of nature. First, we have the... | |
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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... 
