 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...  The Madras University Calendar - Page lxivby University of Madras - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - English language - 1834 - 202 pages
...would have been regular. " Wo have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those imagoa hich we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision." It is " which we have once ith propriety manner in very proper to say, " altering and compounding those... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - English language - 1834 - 200 pages
...into all the varietiss of plctnre and vision." It ia very proper to say, " altering and componnding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of pictnre and vision ;" bnt we caanot with propriety cay, " retaining them into all the varisties ;"... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...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...vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond - English language - 1835 - 240 pages
...and compounding them into all the varieties t of picture and vision ;' or, perhaps 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.' • Exercises on Rule V. Several... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1835 - 244 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 those images which wo have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering... | |
 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...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...vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 478 pages
...cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first appearance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and...vision that are most agreeable to the imagination; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1837 - 242 pages
...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 i-.eceived, into all the varieties of picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagination;... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...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...vision that are most agreeable to the imagination; for, by this faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...construction. This error might have been avoided by arranging the passage in the following manner : ' 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.' The latter part of the sentence... | |
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