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

...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...

...indeed have a sintIe image in the fancy, that did not make its first entrance through the sigiit ; but we have the" power of retaining, altering, and...picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagjnatjon ; for, by this faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining nimself with scenes...

...occasion. 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,...which we have once received, into all the varieties of pieture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon...

...nature." In one member of this sentence there is an inaccuracy in syntax. It is proper to say, alter ing and compounding those images which we have once 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...

...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,...picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagmation ; for, by this faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining Himself with scenes...

...occasionj 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,...agreeable to the imagination ; for by this faculty o. man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes more beautiful than...

...occasion. 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,...the varieties of picture and vision that are most agrcoable to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself...

...sentence, there is an inaccuracy in syntax. It is very proper to say, altering and compounding thoseimages which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision. But we can with no propriety say, retaining them into all the varieties; and yet, according to the...

...Neither luttk it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things," &c. would have been regular. " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...have once received, into all the varieties of picture anu vision." It is very proper to say, " alterin* and compounding those images which we have once received,...