...through inadvertence, be guilty of fuch an error. The conftruftion might eaiily have been reftified, by disjoining the participle retaining, from the other...participles in this way : " We have the power of retaining thofc " images which we have once received ; and of al" tering and compounding them into all the varie*'...

...participle retaining from the other two participles in this way : " We have the power " .of retaining thefe images which we have once '* received ; and of altering and compounding " them into all the varieties ofpiclure and vifion ;" or better perhaps thus : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...

...participle retaining from the other two participles in this way : " We have the power of retaining thofe " images which we have once received ; and of altering...compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vif" ion ;" or better perhaps thus : " We have the power of re" taining, altering, and compounding...

...paflage inthe following manner ; " We have the power of retaming " thole images, which we h^ve ones received ; and of " altering and compounding them into all the varieties . " .of pifture and vifion." The latter part of ths fen, tence is clear and elegant. Tiers art few words in...

...connected with the following preposition, into. The construction might easily have been rectified, by disjoining the participle retaining from the other...or, perhaps, better thus : " We have the power of rtteining, altering, and compounding those images which \ve have or.ce received, ahd of fonnwig them...

...connected with the following preposition, into. The construction might easily have been recii£ed, by disjoining the participle retaining from the other...altering and- compounding them into all the varieties 01 picture and vision ;" or, perhaps, better thus : " We have. the power of retaining, altering, and...

...connected with the following prepofition, into. The confirmation might eafily have been rectified, by disjoining the participle retaining from the other...participles, in this way : " We have the power of retaining thofe images which we have once received, and of altering and compounding them into all the varieties...

...avoided by arranging the paffage in the following manner: " We have the pow" er of retaining thofe images which we have once " received -, and of altering and compounding them " ioto all the varieties of pifture and vifion." The latter part of the fentence is clear and elegant....

...through inadvertance, be guilty of such an error. The construction might easily have been rectified, by disjoining the participle retaining from the other...compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vir " sion )" or better perhaps thus : " We have the power of re? " taining, altering, and compounding...

...connected with the following preposition, into. The construction might easily have been rectified, by disjoining the participle retaining from the other...participles, in this way : " We have the power of retaiping those images which we have once received, and of altering and compounding them into all the...