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The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence - Page v
by Jane Stuart Smith, Betty Carlson - 1995 - 317 pages
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Freemason's Magazine, Or General and Complete Library, Volume 2

Freemasonry - 1794 - 518 pages
...Emollit mores, nee sinit esse feros ; says Ou/V. And it is likewise said, that a man who has a taste for music, painting, or architecture, is like one that...sense, when compa'red with such as have no relish for those arts. It is true, by signs, words, and tokens, you are put uppn a level with the meanest...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...rather than suffer the mind to lie idle, or run adrift with any passion that chances to rise in it. A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture,...compared with such as have no relish of those arts. The florist, the planter, the gardener, the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 7

British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...rather than suffer the mind to lie idle, or run adrift with any passion that chances to rise in it. A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture,...compared with such as have no relish of those arts. The florist, the planter, the gardener, the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the...
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to ...

Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...to lie idle, or run a drift with any passion thatchances to rise in it. 19. A man that hasa taste in music, painting or architecture* is like one that...compared with such as have no relish of those arts. The florist, the planter, the gardner,the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the...
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to ...

Noah Webster - Readers - 1809 - 202 pages
...to lie idle or run adrift with any passion that chances to rise in it. 18. A man that has a taste in music, painting, or architecture is like one that...compared with such as have no relish of those arts. The florist, the planter, the gardener, the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...than nineteen parts of the species in twenty. Spectator, No. 1 15. A man that has a taste for musick, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared v. ith such as have no relish of those arts. Ibid. No. 93. In short, a modern Pindarick writer, compared...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...rather than suffer the mind to lie idle, or run adrift with any passion that chances to rise in it. A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture,...compared with such as have no relish of those arts. The florist, the planter, the gardener, the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...rather than suffer the mind to lie idle, or run adrift with any passion that chances to rise in it. A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture,...compared with such as have no relish of those arts. The florist, the planter, the gardener, the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the...
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to ...

Noah Webster - Elocution - 1814 - 240 pages
...thatchances to rise in it. 18. A man that has a taste in music, painting, or architecture, is like one th..i has another sense when compared with such as have no relish of those arts. The florist, the planter, the gardener, the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the...
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Elegant extracts, Volume 55

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...mind to lie idle, or run adrift with any passion that chances to rise in it. A man that has a taste in music, painting, or architecture, is like one that...compared with such as have no relish of those arts. The florist, the planter, the gardener, the husbandman, when they are only as accomplishments to the...
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