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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... "
An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language ... - Page 302
by Lindley Murray - 1819
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1729 - 320 pages
...its proper Enjoyments. The Senfe of Feeling can indeed give us a Notion of Exteniion, Shape, and nil other Ideas that enter at the Eye, except Colours ; but at the fame time it is very much ftreightned and confined in its Operations, to the number, bulk, and diftJnee...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1767 - 334 pages
...with its proper enjoyments. The fenfe of feeling can indeed give us a no. tion of extenfion, fliape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the fame time it is / very much ftraitned and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and diftance...
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The Lady's Magazine: Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ...

1829 - 696 pages
...sentence. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." First, we have the rise of ideas from sensible objects, and subsequently their progress and duration....
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1778 - 342 pages
...fatiated with its proper enjoyments, The fenfe of feeling c^n indeed give us a notion of extenfion, Ihape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the fame time it is very much ftraitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and diftance...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 5

1786 - 670 pages
...proper enjoyment«« The lente ut feeling eau indeed give u» ve ui a notion of extenfion, fliape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours; but at the fame time it is very much ftj aliened and confined in it's openations, to tlie number, bulk, and diftamce...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1793 - 518 pages
...with its proper enjoyments. The .*' of feeling can, indeed, five us a notion of ex" tendon, ftiape, and all other ideas that enter at *' the eye, except colours ; but, at the lame time, *' it is very much ftraitened and confined in its " operations," &c. (Spectator, No. 411.)...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - 1799 - 438 pages
...fatiated with its proper enjoyments. The fenfe of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extenfion, fhape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the fame time it is very much ftraitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk, and diftance...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...mind," speaking of sight, " with the ** largest variety of ideas ; converses with its " objects at the greatest distance ; and continues " the longest in...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,...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1802 - 328 pages
...occurs immediately afterward. Tin fenfe affecting fan, indeed, give us a notion of extenJion,jbape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but, at the fame time, it is 'very much Jfraitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and dijlance...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

1803 - 376 pages
...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...very much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects. Our sight seems designed to supply all...
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