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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... "
Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 105
by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 pages
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Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettres

Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for, by this faculty, a man in a...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick

Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 320 pages
...indeed have a single image, in the fancy, that did not make its first entrance through the sight i but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images -which we hone once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagination...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination : for by this faculty a man in a dungeon...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 8

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imaginationj for by this faculty a man in a dungeon...
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Conversations on English Grammar: Explaining the Principles and Rules of the ...

Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
..."Neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things," &c. would have been regular. " We. have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering and compounding those images which we...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination : for by this faculty a man in a dungeon,...
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A general critical grammar of the Inglish language, on a system novel and ...

Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 pages
...compounding them into all the varieties of picture, and vision: but the sentence would stand better thus; We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of forming them into all the varieties of picture, and vision. Observe: the error of the foregoing...
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English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1825 - 278 pages
...and compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vision , or, perhaps, better thus : i. \ye have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of forming them into all the varieties of picture and vision." INTERJECTION. For the syntax of...
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English Grammar

Lindley Murray - 1827 - 328 pages
...compounding them into all the varieties oi pv,.uire and vision ;" or, perhaps, better thus : " We ha v« the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of (bribing them into all the varieties of picture and vision." fNTEKJKCTION. For the syntax of...
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Grammatical Questions

Charles Bradley - English language - 1830 - 122 pages
...whose hands is wickedness, and their right hand is full of gifts." What should be said instead of, " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision" ? PROSODY PBONUNCIATION. Accent. FOR what purpose is accent used ? Has every...
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