| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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