 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...  Select British Classics - Page 701803Full view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...after these elevated words, into an undulating tone, on the following syllables, — thus ; Our siglit is the MOST perfect, and MOST delightful of all our senses. It fills the luind with the largest VARIETY of ideas, converses with its objects at the GREATEST distance, and continues... | |
 | Ichabod Nichols - Anatomy - 1829 - 198 pages
...and improvement of our noblest faculties. B. The same thought is beautifully suggested by Addison. " Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." T. Sturms, after giving a minute description of the eye, has expressed in his devout and animated manner,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...delightful, of wri our senses. It fills the mind with the - largest variety of t Mieas, converses with it? objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired, or •atiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling etih, indeed, give us a notion of extension,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...immediately after these elevated words, into an undulating tone, on the following syllables, — thus,; Our sight is the MOST perfect, and MOST delightful...all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest VABIETY of ideas, converses with its objects at the GREATEST distance, and continues the longest in... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 416 pages
...Italic character, as to exhibit the true pronunciation. Our sight is the most perfect and most deUghtful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of id&as ; converses with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the longest in action,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1831 - 284 pages
...between perfect and delightful there is no contrast, such a repetition is unnecessary. He proceeds: It fills the mind with. the largest variety of ideas,...objects at the greatest distance, and continues the What is the subject of this lecture ? — What shull we now commence ? — What will this suggest?... | |
 | Ichabod Nichols - Anatomy - 1831 - 224 pages
...thought is beautifully suggested by Addison. " Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful af all our senses ; it fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its object at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated... | |
 | Spectator - 1832 - 280 pages
...Untrodden yet: 'tis sweet to visit first Untouch'd and virgin streams, and 'quench niy thirst. CBEICH. largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects...continues the longest in action without being; tired or'satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feel- *• ing. can indeed give us a nation of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1832 - 234 pages
...inversions. The following 'is an example of natural construction: "Our eight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind...with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its ohjects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without heing tired, or satiated... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1832 - 242 pages
...variety, is more commonly applied to extent than number. It is plain, however, that he employed it to 10 " It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...converses with its objects at the greatest distance, ana continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." ,... | |
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