. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . JiliV V !!ll i!(,iiii^^ ill ;lli^. J-Tourx^ of SgaPfafion. Although we have usually a general and common use of all the senses, yet,in persons of certain temperaments, some single sense has its moods of pre-dominance, and all the others subside and accompany it, as a low and pleasantharmony in music. We have compared it to the habit of a band, in which theFrench horn seems to rise at times above all others, and to float upon theharmony like a yacht upon the sea ; then subsiding, the clarionets emerge andshout above all other instruments, but only for
. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . JiliV V !!ll i!(,iiii^^ ill ;lli^. J-Tourx^ of SgaPfafion. Although we have usually a general and common use of all the senses, yet,in persons of certain temperaments, some single sense has its moods of pre-dominance, and all the others subside and accompany it, as a low and pleasantharmony in music. We have compared it to the habit of a band, in which theFrench horn seems to rise at times above all others, and to float upon theharmony like a yacht upon the sea ; then subsiding, the clarionets emerge andshout above all other instruments, but only for a moment, and then, minglingwith their companions, they send forth the bugle or other instrument. Somesuch change as this is going on in everyone who carries all his senses into naturefor the of her melodies and harmonies. Some days seem to be characterised by some single sense. There are head-days, heart-days, there are eye-days and ear-days, and promiscuous days inwhich delicious sensations of pleasure at life in general predominate. These lastare transcendent
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