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" ... corresponding with certain emotions of the soul. ' Of all man's senses, the sight and hearing are those through which the greatest influence upon the mind and heart is produced ; which, therefore, constitute the most powerful springs of the moral... "
New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 404
1844
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...constitute the most powerful springs of the moral and mental perceptions, actions, and judgments of mankind. But the hearing would seem the most powerful and operative...desolate tract of country, or the worst of poems.' It is perfectly true that the bare contemplation of a daub does not throw Mr. Rogers into convulsions...
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Orpheus, Or, Musical Anthology: A Collection of Elegant Papers, Original and ...

Boston professor - Music - 1850 - 420 pages
...moral and mental perceptions, actions, and judgments of mankind. But the hearing would seem the more powerful and operative of the two, because inharmonious,...capable of shocking and torturing our feelings to their utmost core, to such an extent as to make us almost beside ourselves — an effect which it is impossible...
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The Crimean campaign. American orators and statesmen. Journalism in France ...

Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1858 - 460 pages
...constitute the most powerful springs of the moral and mental perceptions, actions, and judgments of mankind. But the hearing would seem the most powerful and operative...desolate tract of country, or the worst of poems." It is perfectly true that the bare contemplation of a daub does not throw Mr. Rogers into convulsions...
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Bible music, variations on musical themes from Scripture

Francis Jacox - 1871 - 356 pages
...himself deprived of sight, treats of that sense as less powerful and operative than that of hearing, " because inharmonious, jarring tones are capable of...to make us almost beside ourselves " — an effect, he goes on to say, in his Idem und Betrachtungen iiber die Eigenschaften der Musik, it is impossible...
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Bible Music: Being Variations, in Many Keys, on Musical Themes from Scripture

Francis Jacox - Music - 1872 - 348 pages
...himself deprived of sight, treats of that sense as less powerful and operative than that of hearing, "because inharmonious, jarring tones are capable of...to make us almost beside ourselves " — an effect, he goes on to say, in his Ideen und Betrachtungen uber die Eigenschaften der Musik, it is impossible...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 650 pages
...constitute the most powerful springs of the moral and mental perceptions, actions, and judgments of mankind. But the hearing would seem the most powerful and operative...desolate tract of country, or the worst of poems.' It is perfectly true that the bare contemplation of a daub does not throw Mr. Rogers into convulsions...
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