 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...  The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator - Page 324by Joseph Addison - 1854Full view - About this book
 | 1803 - 376 pages
...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....much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects. Our sight seems designed to supply all these... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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....much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk and distance of its particular objects. Our sight seems designed to supply all these... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...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....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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 pages
...with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being lived, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 pages
...of ideas, converses with its objects at the gVeatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments....that enter at the eye except colours ; but, at the s:ime time, it is very much straitened and confined in its operations," Ecc. But •Whether we use... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 pages
...of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with, its proper...indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and ail other ideas that enter at the eye except colours ; but, at the same time, it is very much straitened... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1807 - 290 pages
...of ideas, converses withits objects at the greatest distance. and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments...very much straitened and confined in its operations," &c. But whether we use inversion or not, and in whatever part of the sentence we dispose of the capital... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...ideas, converses * with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the long*' est m action, without being tired, or satiated with its prop*er...except colours ; but at the same time, it is very much strait*' ened and confined in its operations, &c." (Spectator, No. 411.) In this strain, he always... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 pages
...action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed giva us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas...except colours ; but at the same time it is very much strained, and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 346 pages
...the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with Us proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed,...very much straitened and confined in its operations," &c. misery or harm at all. Which, to allow, is just aS reasonable as to own, that it is the greatest... | |
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