 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 pages
...not inappropriate illustrations of those laws and properties. Addison speaking of sight says, " It fills the mind with the " largest variety of ideas;...greatest distance; and continues the longest in action, wilh" out being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments:" which is a sentence, as Dr. Blair observes,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...practise upon them. EXAMPLES. " Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...greatest distance, and continues the longest in action wit limit being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 586 pages
...unsearchable. '• Our night," says Addison, " is the most perfect nnd delightful of ull our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...converses with its objects at the greatest distance, anil continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 pages
...course of his tedious march. The sight fills the mind with the greatest variety of ideas, converses with objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being satiated with its proper enjoyments. ' While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1863 - 446 pages
...that he employed it "to avoid the repetition of the word irreat, which occurs immediately afterward. " The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and all othsr ideas that enter at the eye, except colors; but, at the same time, it is very much straitened... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 pages
...at coy virgin Naiads." ANON. fUR 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 greater distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 470 pages
...peep at coy virgin Naiads." 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 $bjects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1866 - 654 pages
...would 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.'... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pages
...meaning, but it helps the sound, and gives a slight unction of personality to the subject. 2. " It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoy" nients." The principal subject is in its place, at the beginning. The three predicates are a... | |
 | 1869 - 392 pages
...most delightful of all the senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being satiated." — SPECTATOR. naturalist can infer the one from the other with unerring certainty. 986.... | |
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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... 
