 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 pagine
...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... | |
 | Boston professor - 1850 - 420 pagine
...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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 460 pagine
...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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 356 pagine
...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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 348 pagine
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 pagine
...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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... 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... 