 | 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 - 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.... | |
 | 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
...this way : " We have the power of retaining those images which we have once received, and of altering and compounding them into all the varieties of picture...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...this way : " We have the power of retaining those images which we have once received, and of altering and compounding them into all the varieties of picture...or, perhaps, better thus : " We have the power of rtteining, altering, and compounding those images which \ve have or.ce received, ahd of fonnwig them... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...have been used instead of the possessive their ; viz. " and taho«e tight hand is full of gifts." " We have the power of retaining, altering, 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...following instances, the first a solecism in syntax, the second in grammar, will sufficiently prove : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties, &c. &c. *" " The last are, indeed, more preferable, &c. &c.f" As I wish to... | |
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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... 
