 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1784 - 412 pages
...paffage in the following manner : " tye have the power of retaining, altering, and comr pounding thofc images which' we have once received; and of forming them into all the varieties of picture and vi£0n."-rThe latter part of the fentencc is perfpicuous and elegant. "There are few "yards in the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...vifion ;" or better perhaps thus : " We have the power of retaining, alter*' ing, and compounding thofe images which we " have once received ; and of forming them into " all the varieties of piclure and vifion." — The latter part of the fentence is clear and elegant. " There are few words... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 500 pages
...participle retaining from the other two participles in this way : " We have the power " .of retaining thefe images which we have once '* received ; and of altering and compounding " them into all the varieties ofpiclure and vifion ;" or better perhaps thus : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 374 pages
...paflage in the following manner : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding thole images which we have once received; and of forming them into all the the varieties of picture and vilion. — The latter part of the fentence is perlpicuous and elegant.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 416 pages
...participle retaining from the other two participles in this way : " We have the power of retaining thofe " images which we have once received ; and of altering...compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vif" ion ;" or better perhaps thus : " We have the power of re" taining, altering, and compounding... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 328 pages
...paflage inthe following manner ; " We have the power of retaming " thole images, which we h^ve ones received ; and of " altering and compounding them into all the varieties . " .of pifture and vifion." The latter part of ths fen, tence is clear and elegant. Tiers art few words in... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...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 that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...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 that are most agreeable to the imagination : for by this... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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 that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...participle retaining from the other two participles, in this way : " We have the power of retaining those images which we have once received, and of altering...which we have once received, and of forming them into nil tho v"--'' : - - of picture and vision." both of the nominative and objective cases; " Neither... | |
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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... 
