 | 1804 - 412 pages
...with scenes and landskips more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of nature. There are few words in the English language which...employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense thau those of the ' fancy' and the ' imagination.' I therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...all the varieties "of picture and vision." The latter part of the sentence is clear and elegant. " There are few words in the English Language which...employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense thaij ** those of the Fancy and the Imagination." There are few words— which are employed. It had... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 pages
...with scenes and landscapes more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of nature. There are few words in the English language which...imagination. I therefore thought it necessary to fix aud determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 542 pages
...discovery, which is, at present, universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy. There are few words in the English language, which...sense, than those of the fancy and the imagination. I intend to make use of these words in the thread of my following speculations, that the reader may conceive... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 178 pages
...discovery, which is, at present, univer*ally acknowledged by all the inquirers i»to natural philosophy. There are few words in the English language, which are employed in a more loose and unciri uroscribed sense, than those of ihe fancy and the imagination. my following speculations, that... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 pages
...the sentence is clear and elegant. There are few words in the English language, which are emfiloyed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense than those of the fancy and the imagination. Except when some assertion of consequence is advanced, these little words, it is and there are, ought... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1811 - 464 pages
...lafter part of the sentence is clear and elegant. " There are few words in the English lan" guage, which are employed in a more loose and " uncircumscribed...sense than those of the fancy " and the imagination." " THERE are few words, which are employed." It had been better, if our author here had said more simply,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 224 pages
...only to suspend their misery. universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy. There are few words in the English language, which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscrjbed sense, than those of the fancy and the imagination. I intend to make use of these words... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - 308 pages
...present 160 SXERCI»ES. (Strength. universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy. There are few words in the English language, which...sense, than those of the fancy and the imagination. I intend to make use of these words in the thread of my following speculations, that the reader may conceive... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pages
...into all the varieties of picture and vision.' The latter part of the sentence is clear and elegant. ' There are few words in the English language which...sense than those of the fancy and the imagination.' There are few words — which are employed. It had been better, if our author here had said more simply,... | |
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There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense than those of the fancy and the imagination. 
