Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension... Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 219by Hugh Blair - 1815 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...fhipendous works of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grafp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleafing aftonifhment at fuch unbounded views, and feel a delightful ftillnefs and amazement in the... | |
| 1803 - 376 pages
...stupendous works of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into...delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions ot them. 1 he mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon... | |
| 1803 - 420 pages
...of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is loo big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing...delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...stupendous works pf nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to fancy itself... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...stupendous works of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into...delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 pages
...stupendous works of Nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into...views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in tha soul at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 pages
...stupendous works x>f Nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into...delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates everything that looks like a restraint upon... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...stupendous works of nature. Our imagination lores to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into...delightful stillness and amazement in the soul, at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like -restraint upon... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 pages
...stupendous works of Nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to fancy itself... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...stupendous works of nature. Our • imagination loves to be tilled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded fiews, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul, at the apprehensions of them. The... | |
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