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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... "
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ...: To which are Added, Copious ... - Page 218
by Hugh Blair - 1833 - 549 pages
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1729 - 320 pages
...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...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1767 - 334 pages
...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...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1778 - 342 pages
...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...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 5

1786 - 670 pages
...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...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...with its proper enjoyments. The .*' of feeling can, indeed, five us a notion of ex" tendon, ftiape, and all other ideas that enter at *' the eye, except colours ; but, at the lame time, *' it is very much ftraitened and confined in its " operations," &c. (Spectator, No. 411.)...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1799 - 438 pages
...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...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 328 pages
...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...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of...number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects. Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be considered as a more delicate and...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of...number, bulk and distance of its particular objects. Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be considered as a more delicate and...
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1804 - 412 pages
...satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of ex. tension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very inuch strained and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular...
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