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" The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular... "
Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language - Page 69
by Richard Grant White - 1870 - 437 pages
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of...other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk,...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of...other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk...
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1804 - 412 pages
...satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of ex. tension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very inuch strained and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk,...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...and continues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with, its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and ail other ideas that enter at the eye except colours ; but, at the same time, it is very much straitened...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...cannot be said to enter : an acf)r enters ; but a scene a/:pears., or pres en's itse'f. " The sens; of feeling, can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and ail other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours." JZxteusim and skape can, with no propriety,...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...and continues the long*' est m action, without being tired, or satiated with its prop*er enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a *' notion...other ideas that enter at the " eye, except colours ; but at the same time, it is very much strait*' ened and confined in its operations, &c." (Spectator,...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 344 pages
...action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed giva us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much strained, and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk,...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...that he employed it to avoid the repetition of the word great, which occurs immediately afterwards. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and all oilier ideas that- enteryt the eyef except colours ; but, at the same .lime, it is very much straitened...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners, with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...that we assent to the beauty of an object. a1cknowleg-ewoii\d haveexpressedthe sense with propriety. " The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion...other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours." Extension and shape can, with no propriety, be called ideas; they are properties of matter. Neither...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 352 pages
...we assent to the beauty of an object. Acknowledge would have expressed the sense with, propriety. " The sense of feeling, can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and all oilier ideas that enter at the eye, except colours." Extension and shape can, with nopropriety, be...
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