 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. I therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make...  The British Essayists: Spectator - Strana 129podľa James Ferguson - 1819Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - Počet stránok 266
...imagination. " I therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following...rightly what is the subject which I proceed upon," . The notion of these words is rather harsh, and is not so commonly used as the meaning of these words.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1819 - Počet stránok 550
...which I proceed upon, is an ungraceful close of a sentence; better, the subject upon which I proceed. 1 must therefore desire him to remember, that by the...and that I divide these pleasures into two kinds. As the last sentence began with — I therefore thought it necessary tofix, it is careless to begin... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - Počet stránok 538
...Imagination." / therefore thought it necessary tofix and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following...rightly what is the subject which I proceed upon. Though ^tf and determine may appear synonymous words, yet a difference between them may be remarked,... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - Počet stránok 336
...the fancy. I therefore thought it necessary to fix and dete rmine the notion 01 these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following...rightly what is the subject which I proceed upon.— Attrition, Spectator. There need no more than to make such a registry only voluntary to avoid all the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - Počet stránok 272
...imagination." / therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following speculalions, that the reader may conceive rightly what is the subject which I profeed upon. The words... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - Počet stránok 164
...imagination." " I therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following...rightly what is the subject which I proceed upon." Though fix and determine may appear synonymous words, yet a difference between them may be remarked,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - Počet stránok 320
...imagination." / therefore thought it necessary t« fix and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following...rightly what 'is the subject which I proceed upon. The words fix and determine, though they may appear so, are not synonymous. We fix, what is loose ;... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - Počet stránok 404
...might be brought to show where this is the case. I must therefore desire the reader to remember Hint, by the pleasures of the imagination, I mean only such pleasures as arise originally from sight. Spectator, JVo. 411. It is true, the higher nature still advances, and, by that means, preserves his... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - Počet stránok 322
...imagination. I therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following...sight, and that I divide these pleasures into two kind s : my design being first of all to discourse of those primary pleasures of the imagination, which... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - Počet stránok 320
...language are employed in a more loose and xincircumscribed sense than ' fancy and imagination." " 1 therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine...speculations, that the reader may conceive rightly what is fhe subject which 1 proceed upon." The words _/?,r and determine, though they may ftppear so, are not... | |
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