 Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be considered as a more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Pàgina 396per Hugh Blair - 1819 - 498 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 pàgines
...of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe." This sentence is perspicuous, graceful, well arranged, and highly musical Its construction is so similar... | |
 | Joseph Catafago - 1858 - 368 pàgines
...of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe." The author, having here proposed to himself as a subject " the Pleasures of the Imagination," commences... | |
 | J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 pàgines
...of touch that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. All modern philosophers agree that -vision is performed by rays of light reflected from the several... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pàgines
...touch, that spreads itself over an infinite -multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. 10. " It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas : and by the pleasures of the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1863 - 446 pàgines
...touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, ant brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe." Tms sentence is perspicuous, graceful, well arranged, and highly musical Its construction is so similar... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 pàgines
...of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by "the pleasures of the imagination,"... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pàgines
...touch, " that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, compre" hends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the " most remote parts of the universe." This sentence returns to the principal subject, and works up the contrast point by point ; also rising... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1875 - 458 pàgines
...touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, ant. brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe." This sentence is perspicuous, graceful, well arranged, and highly musica\ Its construction is so similar... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pàgines
...of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. 2. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by the pleasures of the... | |
 | David Kay (F.R.G.S.) - 1888 - 378 pàgines
...of touch that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe." — Prof. G. Wilson. off. In this respect, too, sight is superior to any of the other senses, which... | |
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