 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 σελίδες
...the mind with the largest variety of ideas ; converses •with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the longest in action, without being...other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours. At the same time it is very much confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 σελίδες
...the mind with the largest variety of idioi ; converses •with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the longest in action, without being...The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of exttn' •'//', shiijif, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except cdlouri. At the same time... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 σελίδες
...fills the luind 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 enjoymenU. The sense of feeling can indeed GIVE us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 σελίδες
...woman. (We acknowledge the beauty of a woman, and assent to a proposition.) TJie sense of feeling can give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter the eye. (Extension and shape are properties of matter and not ideas; and our senses give us ideas... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 648 σελίδες
...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...but at the same time, it is very much straitened and confmed in its operations,' &c. (Spectator, No. 411.) In this strain he always proceeds, following... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 σελίδες
...feelingly. Id. Blind men say black feel» rough, and white feel» smooth. Dryden. The sense of feeling can give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours. Addiion's Spectator. Soon in »mart pain hefeeU the dire mistake. Lashes the wave, and beats the foamy... | |
 | Ichabod Nichols - 1829 - 198 σελίδες
...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." T. Sturms, after giving a minute description of the eye, has expressed in his devout and animated manner,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 420 σελίδες
...fills the mind with the largest VABIETY of ideas, converses with its objects at the GREATEST distance, and continues the longest in action without being...extension, shape, and all other ideas that ENTER at the eye exj r MODULATION. REMEDIES. 97. cept colours. At the same time, it is very much CONFINED in its operations,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 σελίδες
...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." Here every reader must be sensible oi beauty in the just distribution of the pauses, and in the manner... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 234 σελίδες
...converses with its ohjects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without heing tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments The...other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours; hut, at the same time, it is very much straitened and confined in its operations." &c.. But whether... | |
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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... 
