Show lovo love of music thoi thi mind or of the nian man la Is like the sea mea which Is IB neither agre Hgr cable able to the be holder nor the ahe voyager in a calm or in a n but la Is so to both when n q little agitated by gentle contle gales and so BO the nind when moved by soft and easy passions and affections I 1 know very vell ell that many who r rn to be wise by the forms of being K g ave ava are apt to despise both boeti ind music as toys and trifles too light for the vae tse or entertainment of men but whoever find themselves them selves wholly insensible to those charms would I 1 think do well to in keep heir own counsel for fear of 0 their own temper and brn iring the goo goodness duess of their natu ios ies if not of 0 their understandings ino question it ma bei be thought at least an ill sign it if not an all ill constitution since bince some of the fethers went 0 o far as aa to esteem the love lova of music a sign of predestination ti ts aa a thing divine and re served for the felicities of heaven itsell sir gir william temple |