The Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 |
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... effects of the different modes1 were probably introduced in a way similar to our modern changes of key and rhythm . We read of musical instruments costing enormous sums , rivalling those frequently paid by our Cremona fanciers ; and ...
... effects of the different modes1 were probably introduced in a way similar to our modern changes of key and rhythm . We read of musical instruments costing enormous sums , rivalling those frequently paid by our Cremona fanciers ; and ...
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... effect of Timotheus ' lyre on the mind of Alex- ander . Historians have recorded the marvellous power of music on the battle - field , to rouse , calm , or inflame to deeds of desperate valour ; hence its habitual use . Such accounts do ...
... effect of Timotheus ' lyre on the mind of Alex- ander . Historians have recorded the marvellous power of music on the battle - field , to rouse , calm , or inflame to deeds of desperate valour ; hence its habitual use . Such accounts do ...
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... effect of this music appears to have been great . St. Augustine , speak- ing of his sensations on entering the church while the choir was singing , says , " As the voices flowed into my ears , truth was instilled into my heart , and the ...
... effect of this music appears to have been great . St. Augustine , speak- ing of his sensations on entering the church while the choir was singing , says , " As the voices flowed into my ears , truth was instilled into my heart , and the ...
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... effect.1 Tassoni , an Italian writer of the period , speaking of the music of King James the First , who introduced such intervals , said that it " was plaintive and melancholy , and different from all other music . " 2 Of the period ...
... effect.1 Tassoni , an Italian writer of the period , speaking of the music of King James the First , who introduced such intervals , said that it " was plaintive and melancholy , and different from all other music . " 2 Of the period ...
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... little understood ; hence his music de- pends for effect almost entirely on the voice , and is thus rendered more independent . The draperies are so simple , that they are less subject to change of fashion . 42 THE BEAUTIFUL.
... little understood ; hence his music de- pends for effect almost entirely on the voice , and is thus rendered more independent . The draperies are so simple , that they are less subject to change of fashion . 42 THE BEAUTIFUL.
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الصفحة 218 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behaviour,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by' heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence...
الصفحة 237 - Lord ? and there is no God else beside me; A just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: For I am God, and there is none else.
الصفحة 240 - Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
الصفحة 240 - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be : but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
الصفحة 12 - Haydn's Book of Dignities : Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Judicial, Military, Naval, and Municipal, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time.
الصفحة 238 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
الصفحة 222 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
الصفحة 215 - From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.
الصفحة 167 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
الصفحة 8 - The Cabinet Lawyer : A Popular Digest of the Laws of England, Civil and Criminal ; with a Dictionary of Law Terms, Maxims, Statutes, and Judicial Antiquities ; Correct Tables of Assessed Taxes, Stamp Duties, Excise Licenses, and Post-Horse Duties ; Post-Office Regulations, and Prison Discipline. 16th Edition, comprising the Public Acts of the Session 1853.