...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...

...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,...

...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...

...its first entrance through the sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compoundmg those images which we have once received, into all...faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining nimself with scenes and landscapes more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of...

...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...

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...natural. " We cannot 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 compoundmg those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of plcture and vision,...

...part alone expressed. 6. Of the third alone. By the faculty of a lively and picturesque imagination, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes ajid landscapes more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of nature. Up ! comrades...

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...occasions. We can not indeed have a single image in the faney that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining,...for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertainlng himself with scenesand landscapes more beaut'ful than any that can be found in the whole...