The Music of Nature: Or, An Attempt to Prove that what is Passionate and Pleasing in the Art of Singing, Speaking, and Performing Upon Musical Instruments, is Derived from the Sounds of the Animated WorldLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 - 505 páginas |
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... Mind ' when only two years old . It is extraordinary what an effort nature makes upon the loss of sight to compensate the deficiency by sharpening the sense of hearing and touch : as in the case of Huber , the great naturalist , who has ...
... Mind ' when only two years old . It is extraordinary what an effort nature makes upon the loss of sight to compensate the deficiency by sharpening the sense of hearing and touch : as in the case of Huber , the great naturalist , who has ...
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... mind , calling up ideas of light and sound ? To those who have never heard , what a blank the creation must appear ! -all in motion , yet silent as death ! The horrors of such a scene cannot be described ; and we may say with Hartley ...
... mind , calling up ideas of light and sound ? To those who have never heard , what a blank the creation must appear ! -all in motion , yet silent as death ! The horrors of such a scene cannot be described ; and we may say with Hartley ...
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... Depth of voice fills the mind with an idea of an enormous being ; and children in their frolics frighten each other by imitating these voices , highest order there appears scarcely more than one first - E 33 THE VOICE . 33.
... Depth of voice fills the mind with an idea of an enormous being ; and children in their frolics frighten each other by imitating these voices , highest order there appears scarcely more than one first - E 33 THE VOICE . 33.
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... mind of the speaker is so occupied with his subject as not to allow him time to reflect upon his defect , he will talk without diffi- culty . All stammerers can sing , owing to the con- tinuous sound , and the slight manner in which the ...
... mind of the speaker is so occupied with his subject as not to allow him time to reflect upon his defect , he will talk without diffi- culty . All stammerers can sing , owing to the con- tinuous sound , and the slight manner in which the ...
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... mind developed , and our wants increased , means would be suggested , by the articulating powers , to break these instinctive tones into particles of imitative sound ; and in all proba- * Booth's Analytical Dictionary . bility the first ...
... mind developed , and our wants increased , means would be suggested , by the articulating powers , to break these instinctive tones into particles of imitative sound ; and in all proba- * Booth's Analytical Dictionary . bility the first ...
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The Music of Nature: Or, An Attempt to Prove that what is Passionate and ... William Gardiner Visualização integral - 1849 |
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