 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...organ of sight. i 1 have here supposed that mv reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...the inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that ligjit and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1838 - 372 pages
...from the body. r 'I have here supposed, that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that light and colors, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - 262 pages
...their misery. I have here supposed that the reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is, at present, 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 uncircumscribed... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1841 - 322 pages
...with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all the inqinrers into natural philosophy, namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, art only ideas in the mind, and not mtatitiet that have any existence in matter" We should, indeed,... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, John Cormack - 1842 - 316 pages
...Addison (Spectator, vol. vi., No. 413), " that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...not qualities that have any existence in matter." We should, indeed, be tempted to expect, from the pompous manner in which this great discovery is announced,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 pages
...their misery. I have here supposed that the reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is, at present, 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 uncircumscribed... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 162 pages
...and behavior. 6. I have here supposed that the reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is, at present, universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy. RULE H. AND MODEL. After removing superfluities, the second rule for promoting the strength of a sentence,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...with that great modern discovery which is at present universally acknowledged by all the inquiries into natural philosophy; namely, that light and colours,...as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas m the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter. As this is a truth which has been... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1854 - 1314 pages
...is possible. ' I have here supposed, that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...truth which has been proved incontestably by many mo- dern philosophers, and h, indeed, one of the finest speculations in that science, if the English... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...organ of sight. I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the-mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter. As this is a truth which has been proved... | |
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I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged -by all the inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only... 
