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Local Logic. 415
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it . He is a * constant reader' of the Repository , and a constant purchaser too , and an inquirer and admirer besides . So let all these sympathies come together in the proper way by advertisement . Happy be the match thereupon made . And the editor will be very ungrateful if he does not hand over to me , his constant correspondent , the profits , or at least a moiety of the profits ,
of the inquiring and replying advertisements , to pay travelling expenses to that delicious retreat , and a dinner for all part les , sub Jove , on the lawn ; and never was lawn more jovial than that would be . Well , I awoke there very early in the morning , with no recollection where I was , or how I got there , but with a pleasant sensation all over me of being somewhere where to be was very
pleasant . How curious is the correspondence , even in the soundest sleep between the external world and the internal . Somehow or other , notifications of change , and of the character and colour of that change ,, are conveyed by the organs of sense to the brain , and it takes cognizance of them , our not seeing and not thinking notwithstanding . I mean to say , as we lie asleep . Such communications are as correct in spirit , as in substance they are
confused and imperfect . They are like the impressions conveyed by reading a newspaper to a very drowsy man with a pipe in his mouth . He gets a general notion , perhaps , that a glorious victory has been gained . And * His Majesty ' s arms , ' and ' stands of colours , ' and ' sprigs of laureP float about in his brain ; but
exactly where , or when , or why , or by whom the aforesaid battle was fought , he has no distinct conception . But he feels very rejoiced , and glorious , and old England-ish ^ and life and fortune-y , and heaven-born ministerial-ish , nevertheless . Or these communications are like the Peruvian pictures , with hands , and swords , and bows ,
and serpents , and other ocular conundrums ; which the last of the Caciques used to send to the last of the Incas because they had neither Moniteurs , nor Gazettes Extraordinary , to report the proceedings of Cortez and Pizarro . Or they are , most of all , like the impression which one musically organized being may convey
to another , by extempore play on an instrument . You cannot tell the precise material object or the external event , of which the player is thinking ; it may be of a castle in the air at sunset , or of Shelley ' s poems , or of the revelation of St . John , in one strain ; or it may be , in another , of Dominichino ' s painting of Latona changing the inhabitants of Doeotia into frogs ; orof Southwood Smith ' s lecture on the natural history of death ; or of the third act of Othello ; or of the strange and entangled situation of our friend ; or of a philosophical and poetical mind , reflecting on the history of the French Revolution . You cannot tell , I say , exactly what definite being , or condition , ( he melody is associated with , but you may tell infallibly , you may write down in words , the most precise and distinct , the species of emotion , and the character of the train of emotions which are in the soul
Local Logic. 415
Local Logic . 415
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/55/
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