| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - Страниц: 414
...diminishes, to the close. EXAMPLE. OUR SIGHT IS THE MOST PERFECT, AND MOST DELIGHTFUL, or ALL OUR SEHSES. IT FILLS THE MIND WITH THE LARGEST VARIETY OF IDEAS,...CONVERSES WITH ITS OBJECTS AT THE GREATEST DISTANCE, AND coJSTINCES THE LONGEST in ACTI01J WITHOUT BEING TIRED OR SATIATED WITH ITS PROPER ENJOYMENTS. THE SENSE... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - Страниц: 452
...after these elevated words, into an undulating tone, on the following syllables, — thus ; Our siglit is the MOST perfect, and MOST delightful of all our senses. It fills the luind with the largest VARIETY of ideas, converses with its objects at the GREATEST distance, and continues... | |
| Ichabod Nichols - 1829 - Страниц: 198
...and improvement of our noblest faculties. B. The same thought is beautifully suggested by Addison. " Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful...action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." T. Sturms, after giving a minute description of the eye, has expressed in his devout and... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1829 - Страниц: 318
...delightful, of wri our senses. It fills the mind with the - largest variety of t Mieas, converses with it? objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired, or •atiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling etih, indeed, give us a notion of extension,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1829 - Страниц: 656
...It 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 objectsat the greatest distance, and continues thelongest in action, without being tired or satiated... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1830 - Страниц: 364
...inversions. The following is an example of natural construction: " Our sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind...action, without being tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - Страниц: 420
...immediately after these elevated words, into an undulating tone, on the following syllables, — thus,; Our sight is the MOST perfect, and MOST delightful...all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest VABIETY of ideas, converses with its objects at the GREATEST distance, and continues the longest in... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1830 - Страниц: 380
...following sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to the rule above mentioned: Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continnes the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. This passage... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - Страниц: 416
...Italic character, as to exhibit the true pronunciation. Our sight is the most perfect and most deUghtful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of id&as ; converses with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the longest in action,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1831 - Страниц: 284
...between perfect and delightful there is no contrast, such a repetition is unnecessary. He proceeds: It fills the mind with. the largest variety of ideas,...objects at the greatest distance, and continues the What is the subject of this lecture ? — What shull we now commence ? — What will this suggest?... | |
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