| Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...entrance '* through the fight ; but we have the power of -* retaining, altering, and compounding thofc f images which we have once received, into all the " varieties of picture and vifioi. that are moft *.' agreeable to the imagination ; for, by this fa" culty, a man in a dungeon... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 376 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...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 is capable of entertaining... | |
| 1804 - 412 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...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 is capable of entertaining... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 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...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 is capable of entertaining... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...hand is full of gifts." both of the nominative and objective cafes. " Neither hath it entered into the heart of man, to conceive the things," &c. would...the power of retaining, altering, and compounding, thofe images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vifion." It is very... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...following instances, the first a solecism in syntax, the second in grammar, will sufficiently prove : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties, &c. &c. *" " The last are, indeed, more preferable, &c. &c.f" As I wish to be brief on this ungrateful... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...following instances, the first a solecism in syntax, the second in grammar, will sufficiently prove : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties, &c. &c. *" " The last are, indeed, more preferable, &c, &c. f " As I wish to be brief on this ungrateful... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...should have been used instead of the possessive ihdr l viz. " and whoie right hand is full of gifts." " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding,...those images which we have once received, into all die varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering and compounding those images... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...and- compounding them into all the varieties 01 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 then* into all the varieties of picture and vision.,"' both of the nominative and objective... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...of picture and vision." both of the nominative and objective cases; " Neither hath it entered into the heart of man, to conceive the things," &.c. would have been regular. A PRAXIS : OR EXAMPLES OF GRAMMATICAL RESOLUTION.* As we have finished the explanation of the different... | |
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