 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 σελίδες
...construction. This error might have been avoided by arranging the passage in the followingmanner : ' We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received ; and of forming them into all the varieties of picture and vision.' The latter part of the sentence... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 222 σελίδες
...the things," &c. would have been regular. " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compoundmg, 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1832 - 242 σελίδες
...member of this sentence there is an inaccuracy in syntax. It is proper to say, altering and comjiounding those images which we have once received into all the varieties of picture and vision. But we cannot with propriety say, retaining them into all the varieties; yet the arrangement requires... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 σελίδες
...recti• fied, by disjoining the participle retaining from the other two participles, in this way: 'We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we .have once received ; and of forming them into all the varieties of picture and vision.' The latter part of the sentence... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 σελίδες
...altering and compounding them into all the varieties of 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 them into all the varieties of picture and vision." INTERJECTION. For the syntax of... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1834 - 202 σελίδες
...would have been regular. " Wo have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those imagoa hich we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision." It is " which we have once ith propriety manner in very proper to say, " altering and compounding those... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1834 - 200 σελίδες
...into all the varietiss of plctnre and vision." It ia very proper to say, " altering and componnding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of pictnre and vision ;" bnt we caanot with propriety cay, " retaining them into all the varisties ;"... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 σελίδες
...sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas. We cannot, indeed, have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through...himself with scenes and landscapes more beautiful than can be found in the whole compass of nature. A beautiful prospect delights the soul, as much as a demonstration... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond - 1835 - 240 σελίδες
...and compounding them into all the varieties t of 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 them into all the varieties of picture and vision.' • Exercises on Rule V. Several... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 244 σελίδες
...Neither hath it entered into the heart of man, to conceive the things," &c. would have been regular. "We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which wo have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering... | |
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We cannot indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision... 
