Excerpt from SermonsSounds are continually falling on the ear, wheth ter it heed them or not. Winds blow through the forests, or amidst the branches of lonely trees, or over grass or grain or ¿owers, waters roll beneath their sweep, breaking in waves or dashing for ever along the beach, thunders peal from the clouds, the unceasing voices, unceasirng even amidst the stillness of nature, are joined, and the silence broken, by numberless and varied tones of animals by day and by night, -by the Words of men and the sounds of their industry. The ear becomes oftentimes heedless of them, as of the air whose undulations bear them to it, there is a sort of passive hearing, unsought, unobserved, scarcely remembered.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.