 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...an error. The conftruftion might eaiily have been reftified, by disjoining the participle retaining, from the other two participles in this way : " We have the power of retaining thofc " images which we have once received ; and of al" tering and compounding them into all the varie*'... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...preposition, into. The construction might easily have been rectified, by disjoining the participle retaining from the other two participles, in this way : " We...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
...preposition, into. The construction might easily have been reciiŁed, by disjoining the participle retaining from the other two participles, in this way : " We...altering and- compounding them into all the varieties 01 picture and vision ;" or, perhaps, better thus : " We have. the power of retaining, altering, and... | |
 | 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... 
