For the emotions, whereby we are daily assailed, are generally referred to some part of the body which is affected more than the rest; hence the emotions are generally excessive, and so fix the mind in the contemplation of one object, that it is unable to think of others; and although men, as a rule, are a prey to many emotions and very few are found who are always assailed by one and the same yet there are cases, where one and the same emotion remains obstinately fixed.