 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...of which even executed solos. The cuckoo was the general bass of the piece. LUTHER. " Music," says Luther, " is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a hitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrows, and the fascination of evil thoughts.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American essays - 1830 - 580 pages
...than sufficient to counterbalance the opinions of lord Chesterfield. Martin Luther considers music as one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy. Sir W. Temple says, that some of our fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination,... | |
 | Theater - 1829 - 390 pages
...on Music will be allowed a place in your entertaining and useful work. Yours, &c. JFS " Music," said Luther, " is one of the fairest and most glorious...of sorrows, and the fascination of evil thoughts. Music is a kind and gentle sort of discipline ; it refines the passions, and improves the understanding.... | |
 | Charles Buck - Anecdotes - 1831 - 418 pages
...music. It was Luther's custom to amuse himself with his lute at dinner and sapper: "music," said he, "is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of...enemy ; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow and the fascination of evil thoughts. Music is a kind and gentle sort of discipline ; it refines... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...management of his domestic affairs, he was entirely under her tutelage. LUTHER. " Music," says Luther, " if one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God,...is a bitter enemy ; for it removes from the heart (lie weight of sorrows, and the fascination of evil thoughts. Music is a kind and gentle sort of discipline,... | |
 | John Freeman Milward Dovaston - 1839 - 76 pages
...Luther is frequently and fervently thankful for being enriched with a love of music : he says " it is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God,...enemy ; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts. Music is a kind, and gentle discipline ; it refines the... | |
 | 1841 - 456 pages
...Lord Cockburn in Hay's Collection of Inaugural Addresses by Hectors of Glasgow University. MUSIC. IT is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God,...enemy ; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts. Music is a kind and gentle discipline ; it refines the... | |
 | Charles Buck - Anecdotes - 1841 - 520 pages
...music. It was Luther's custom to amuse himself with his lute at dinner and supper; '.music,' said he, 'is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God to which 27 Satan is a bitter enemy ; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow and the fascination... | |
 | 1844 - 628 pages
...archangels and seraphim, with their silver trumpets ! music celestial ! Luther of old wrote, " Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God,...enemy ; for it removes from the heart the weight of -sorrow and the fascination of evil thoughts. Music is a kind and gentle discipline, it refines the... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Corporal punishment - 1847 - 284 pages
...the HON. SAMUEL YOUNG, on Ike opening of the New York State Normal School, at Albany, 1845. " MUSIC is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God,...refines the passions and improves the understanding. Those who love music, are gentle and honest in their tempers."—MARTIN LUTHER. " Its influence upon... | |
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is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrows and the fascination of evil thoughts. 
