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The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is... →
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very... →
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.