 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 Seiten
...fear and of pain were drowned in the martial music of drums, trumpets, and attaballs ; and experien ce has proved, that the mechanical operation of sounds,...forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 Seiten
...fear and of pain were drowned in the martial music of drums, trumpets, and attaballs ; and experience has proved, that the mechanical operation of sounds,...forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 Seiten
...fear and of pain were drowned in the martial music of drums, trumpets, and attaballs; and experience has proved, that the mechanical operation of sounds,...forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the... | |
 | Health - 1830 - 336 Seiten
...the last volume of his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, observes, that experience has proved that the mechanical operation of sounds,...forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour. Of this remark, the following anecdote, from a late Tour in England and Scotland, is a remarkable illustration... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 Seiten
...fear and of pain were drowned in the martial music of drums, trumpets and attaballs; and experience has proved that the mechanical operation of sounds,...forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour. From the lines, the gallies and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the camp,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 Seiten
...fear and of pain were drowned in the martial music of drums, trumpets and attaballs; and experience has proved that the mechanical operation of sounds,...forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour. From the lines, the gallies and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 552 Seiten
...last volume of the ' History and Decline of the Roman Empire,' Mr. Gibbon observes, that " Experience has proved, that the mechanical operation of sounds,...forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour." Of this remark the following anecdote, from a Tour in England and Scotland is a remark able Jjl/ustration... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 494 Seiten
...last volume of the ' History and Decline of the Roman Empire,' Mr. Gibbon observes, that "Experience has proved, that the mechanical operation of sounds,...forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour." Of this remark the following anecdote, from a Tour in England and Scotland is a remark-, able illustration:... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 496 Seiten
...last volume of the ' History and Decline of the Roman Empire,' Mr. Gibbon observes, that " Experience has proved, that the mechanical operation of sounds,...forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour." Of this remark the following anecdote, from a Tour in England and Scotland is a remarkable illustration:... | |
 | Edward Hodges - 1834 - 76 Seiten
...is—putting it in the mildest terms— to say the thing that is not. " Experience has proved (says Gibbon) that the mechanical operation of sounds, by quickening...machine more forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour."—[Decline and Fall, vol. xii.] And Rollin, in his History of the Arts and Sciences, speaking... | |
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has proved that the mechanical operation of sounds, by quickening the circulation of the blood and spirits, will act on the human machine more forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour. 
