...their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion. We 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 compounding those images,...

...parts of the universe. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas. We cannot, indeed, have a single image in the fancy that did...picture 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...

...have been more natural. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy, that did tat make itsjirst entrance through the sight ; but we have the power...retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we hare once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagination...

...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...

...altering and compounding them into all the varieties 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 ail the variatioft of picture and vision.*' Why is the first example under...

...compounding them into all the varietiae of picture and vision ;" or, perhaps, better tlius : " Wo hav« 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." , Why is the first example under...

...and furnishes our imagination with the greatest number and the most delightful images : " We cannot, indeed, have a single image in the fancy that did...picture 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...

...vp iileas by occasions. The common phrase, any such means, would have been more natural. " We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy, that did...which we have once received, into all the varieties ot picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for, by this faculty, a man in...

...calling up ideas by occasion. The common phrase, any such means, would have been more natural. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy, that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but ice have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received,...

...compass of nature." In one member of this sentence there is an inaccuracy in syntax. It is proper to say, altering and compounding those images which we have...received, into all the varieties of picture and vision. But we cannot with propriety say, retaining them into all the varieties ; yet the arrangement requires...