...received, and of altering and compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vision;" or 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." " Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,...

...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 all the varieties of picture and vision.' Exercises in False Syntax. — Several...

...confined to objects of sight ; and we must admit that " we can not, indeed," as Addison remarks, " have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight." Were we, therefore, capable of analyzing every illusion, we should most probably be able to trace,...

...ie would have been regular. " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those imagos which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision. " It ia very proper to say, '* altering and compounding those images which we have once received, into...

...up ideas 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...but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compoundmg those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of plcture and vision,...

...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...

...compass of nature." In one member of this sentence there is an inaccuracy in syntax. It is proper to sav, altering and compounding those images which we have...received, into all the varieties of picture and vision. But we cannot with ing the passage in the following manner: " We have the po those images which we...

...up ideas by occasions. The common phrase, any such moans, 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 l but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compoundmg those images which we have once received,...

...statues, descriptions, or any the like occasions. We can not indeed have a single image in the faney that did not make its first entrance through the sight;...picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertainlng himself with scenesand...

...aitering 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 all the varieties of picture and vision." Why is the first example under this...