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 - Page 216by Hugh Blair - 1829 - 557 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...distance, and continues the longest in action, without being lived, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion...but, at the same time, it is very much straitened and confinsd in its operations," &c. But -whether we use inversion OF not, and in whatever -partoffhe sentence... | |
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