"This will gradually give the Mind a Faculty of surveying many objects at once; as a Room that is richly adorned and hung round with a great Variety of Pictures, strikes the Eye almost at once with all that Variety, especially if they have been well surveyed one by one at first: This makes it habitual and more easy to the Inhabitants to take in many of those painted Scenes with a single Glance or two."
The Improvement of the Mind
32 entries in ESTC (1741, 1743, 1753, 1754, 1761, 1768, 1773, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br>
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Most text drawn from Google Books. See <u>The Improvement of the Mind: or, a Supplement to the Art of Logick: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of Useful Knowledge, in Religion, in the Sciences, and in Common Life. By I. Watts, D.D.</u> (London: Printed for James Brackstone, at the Globe in Cornhill, 1741). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T82959">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LMwAAAAAcAAJ">Link to 2nd edition in Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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