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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 105
by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 pages
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - English language - 1837 - 242 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 those images which we have once i-.eceived, into all the varieties of picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagination;...
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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...

William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination; for, by this faculty, a man in a...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...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...
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Dr. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric: Abridged. With Questions

Hugh Blair - English language - 1838 - 280 pages
...indeed have a single image in the fancy, that did tat make itsjirst entrance through the sight ; but we have the power of 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...
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English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently ...

Roswell Chamberlain Smith - English language - 1840 - 204 pages
...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...
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English Grammar, on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently ...

Roswell Chamberlain Smith - English language - 1841 - 202 pages
...compounding them into all the varietiae of picture and vision ;" or, perhaps, better tlius : " Wo havĀ« 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...
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The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1842 - 318 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...which we have once 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...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for, by this faculty, a man in...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 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...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...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - English language - 1845 - 638 pages
...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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to tJie imagination ; for, by this faculty, a man in...
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