Festivals, Games and Amusements
by Horace Smith
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217719315
Paperback|9780217719315
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: all (if they be laid on any thing thick), by stopping of the pores, shut in the vapours, and send them to the head extremely. The age of superstition and credulity is rapidly passing away; a smile of contempt is the principal effect produced by the cozening priests who at Naples go through the annual mummery of liquefying St. Jannarius's blood; a new Faustus might spring up in Germany, or a second Galileo at Rome, without any fear of their being punished as magicians or heretics; and that juggler must be a conjurer indeed, who, even at the ignorant village of Tring, where the last of the witches was put to death, could now persuade his'spectators that his legerdemain tricks were of a supernatural character, or performed by the aid of demons. CHAPTER XX. Sedentary Amusements.?Music, Minstrels. The man that hath not music in his soul, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds. Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Shakspeare. Why should we record the various and profound theories which have been formed upon the origin and first invention of music ? Surely it is more philosophical and true, more in accordance with the dictates of religion and the grateful promptings of reason, to acknowledge it at once as the immediate, the earliest, and the most precious boon of Heaven. Nature herself has implanted in the heart of man a love of song, and of melodious combinations, by which he may give vent to, and create an echo for, his own joy in ha happier moments, dissipate his sorrows when under affliction, and cheer his labour at all times. By this innocent artifice the peasant and the mechanic lighten their daily drudgery; and the boatman, as he time...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217719315 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217719317 |
| Weight | 0.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 In |
| List Price | $21.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 112 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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