 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...of order strikingly appears in the following sentence. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." First, we have the rise of ideas from sensible objects, and subsequently their progress and duration.... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...sentence of Mr. Addison may be given. " It " fills the mind," speaking of sight, " with the ** largest variety of ideas ; converses with its " objects at...being tired or " satiated with its proper enjoyments." Here every reader must be sensible of a beauty, both in the just division of the members and pauses,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...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...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 that enter... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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...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 that enter... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variely of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest...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 of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety 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. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...delightful, of all our seiises. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses withits objects at the greatest distance. and continues the...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 that enter... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...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 long*' est m action, without being tired, or satiated with its prop*er enjoyments. The sense of feeling... | |
 | 1807 - 530 pages
...a beautiful example of strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with ihe largest •variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and con'.inuco the longest in action, without bfing tired or satiated with its proper enjoyment." This... | |
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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... 
