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 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...higher key than the rest, and this manner of reading will be exhibited. "Our sight is the MOST pcrfecl, and MOST delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest VARIETY oi ideas, converses with its objects at GREATEST distance, and continues the longest in action without... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...No. 411, the first of his celebrated Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination. It begins thus : ' Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful of all our senses.' This is an excellent introductory sentence. It is clear, precise, and simple. The author lays down,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...s;> distinguishing the chief words, by the Italic character, as to exhibit the true pronunciation. Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful,...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, without... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...occasion to make, and will show, in the most practical light, the use of those which I have made. ' Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful, of all our senses.' This is an excellent introductory sentence. It is clear, precise, and simple. The author lays down,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pages
...prevail. The following sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." This passage follows the order of nature. First, we have the variety of objects mentioned, which sight... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1835 - 244 pages
...prevail. The following sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...continues the longest in action, without being tired or satir.ted with its proper enjoyments." This passage follows the order of nature. First, we have the... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...conclude this subject with the following beautiful observations on the eye, from the pen of Addison : Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful...fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, con verses with its object at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...a fuller voice, and on a higher key than the rest, and this manner of reading will he exhibited. " Our sight is the MOST perfect, and MOST delightful of all our senses. It fills . "ne mind with the largest VAHIETY of ideas, converses with its objects at OBEATEST distance, and... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 420 pages
...more, so distinguishing the chief words, by the Italic character, as to exhibit the true pronunciation. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our sen. •es. It fills the mind with the largest variety of id&as ; converses with its objects at llju... | |
 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...conclude this subject with the following beautiful observations on the eye, from the pen of Addison : Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful...the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its object at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired, or satiated... | |
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