 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 272 páginas
...that be employed it to avoid the repetition of the word great> which occurs immediately afterward. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion...of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter nt the eye, except colors; but at tktsame time, it is very much, straitened and confined in its operations... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 164 páginas
...This sentence has still another beauty. It is figurative, without being too much so for the subject. " The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion...former. It is, indeed, neither clear nor elegant. The meaning would have been much more clear, if the author had expressed himself thus : " the sense... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 156 páginas
...sentence has still another beauty . It is figurative, without being too much so for the subject. " 'I he sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of...former. It is, indeed, neither clear nor elegant. The meaning would have been much more clear, if the author had expressed himself thus : " the sense... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 320 páginas
...that he employed it to avoid the word great, which occurs immediately afterward. The sense of Reeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colors ; but, at the same time, it is very much straitened and confined in its operations,to the number,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 468 páginas
...that a strict critic might perhaps object, that the epithet large, which he applies to variety, " the largest variety of ideas," is an epithet more commonly...at the " same time, it is very much straitened and con" fined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and " distance of its particular objects." This... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 458 páginas
...tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. " The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a no" tion of extension, shape, and all other ideas " that enter...much straitened and " confined in its operations," &c. (Spectator, No. 411.) In this strain he always proceeds, following the most natural and obvious... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 páginas
...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...enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same M 3 time it is very much straitened, and confined in its operations to the number, bulk, and distance... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 páginas
...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...enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same M 3 time it is very much straitened, and confined in its operations to the number, bulk, and distance... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 320 páginas
...that he employed it to avoid the repetition of the word great, which occurs immediately afterward. "The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion...other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours; *ut, at the same time, it is very much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk,... | |
 | 1824 - 268 páginas
...distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling c-an indeed give us a notion...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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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... 
