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tions. These living chords, turned by an Almightjr 

 hand, and spread through the echoing isles, receive all 

 the impressions of sound, and propagate them to the 

 brain. These give existence to the charms or music, 

 and the still nobler charms of discourse. 



The eye is useless amidst the gloom of night ; but 

 the ear hears through the darkest medium. The eye 

 is on duty only in our waking hours, but the ear is 

 always accessible. 



As there are concussions of the air which are dis- 

 cernible only by the instruments of hearing, so there 

 are odoriferous particles wafted in the air, which are 

 perceivable only by the smell. The nostrils are wide 

 at the bottom, that more effluvia may enter ; narrow 

 at the top, that when entered they may act more 

 strongly. The steams that exhale from fragrant bodies 

 are fine beyond imagination. Microscopes that shew 

 thousands of animals in a drop of water, cannot bring 

 one of these to our sight; yet so judiciously are the 

 olfactory nets set, that they catch the vanishing fugi. 

 tives. They imbibe all the roaming perfumes of spring, 

 and make us banquet even on the invisible dainties of 

 nature. 



Another capacity for pleasure our bountiful Creator 

 has bestowed, by granting us the powers of ta.-te. 

 This is circumstanced in a manner so. benign and wise$ 

 as to be a standing plea for temperance, which set the 

 finest edge on the taste, and adds the most poignant re- 

 lish to its enjoyments. 



And these senses are not only so many sources of 

 delight, but a joint security to our health: they are 

 the inspectors ihat examine our food, and enquire into 

 the properties of it. For the discharge of this office 

 they are excellently qualified, and most co;nmO(!iously 

 situate, so that nothing can gain admission till it has 

 past their scrutiny. 



To all these, as a most necessary supplement, is 

 added the sense of Feeling. And how happily is it 

 tempered between the two extremes, neither too acute 



