...following instances, the first a solecism in syntax, the second in grammar, will sufficiently prove : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties, &c. &c. *" " The last are, indeed, more preferable, &c. &c.f" As I wish to be brief on this ungrateful...

...following instances, the first a solecism in syntax, the second in grammar, will sufficiently prove : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties, &c. &c. *" " The last are, indeed, more preferable, &c, &c. f " As I wish to be brief on this ungrateful...

...should have been used instead of the possessive ihdr l viz. " and whoie right hand is full of gifts." " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding,...those images which we have once received, into all die varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering and compounding those images...

...and- compounding them into all the varieties 01 picture and vision ;" or, perhaps, better thus : " We have. the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of forming then* into all the varieties of picture and vision.,"' both of the nominative and objective...

...received, Into all the varieties ff piFlitre and vifwn, that are moft agreeable to the imagination s for, by this faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himfelf -with fcenes and landfcapts more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compafs...

...all the varieties of picture and vifion." It is very proper to fay, "altering and compounding thofe images which •we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and Tifion ;" but we can with no propriety fay, " retaining them into all the varieties ;" and yet, according...

...paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through...once received, into all the varieties of picture and vUion that are most agreeable to the imagination : for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable...

...into the heart of man, to conceive the things," &c. would have been regular. " We have the po>\-cr of retaining, altering, and compounding, those images...received, into all the varieties of picture and vision. " It is very proper to say, " altering, and compounding those images which we Have once received, into...

...indeed have a single image in the fancy, that " did not make its first entrance through the sight -t but we " have the power of retaining, altering and...those images which we have once received, into all the varie" ties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imag*' ination ; for by this faculty,...

...man, to conceive the things," &c. would have been regular. "We have the power of retaining, altefing, and compounding, those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering and compounding those images which we have once received, into...