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"ever wild boars, elephants, deer, dolphins, whales 66 or turbots, fhewed the least emotion at the most "elaborate strains of your modern fcrapers, all “which have been, as it were, tamed and huma"nized by ancient musicians? Does not Ælian * "tell us how the Lybian mares were excited to "horfing by mufic? (which ought in truth to be a "caution to modeft women against frequenting operas; and confider, brother, you are brought

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to this dilemma, either to give up the virtue of "the ladies, or the power of your mufic). Whence "proceeds the degeneracy of our morals? It is not from the lofs of ancient mufic, by which

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(fays Ariftotle) they taught all the virtues? Elfe "might we turn Newgate into a college of Dorian "musicians, who fhould teach moral virtues to "those people. Whence comes it that our pre"fent difeafes are lo ftubborn? whence is it that "I daily deplore my fciatical pains? Alas! be"caufe we have loft their true cure by the melody "of the pipe. All this was well known by the an"cients, as Theophraftus + affures us, (whence "Cælius calls it loca dolentia decantare); only in"deed fome finall remains of this fkill are preferv"ed in the cure of the tarantula. Did not Py

thagoras ftop a company of drunken bullies "from forming a civil houfe, by changing the "ftrain of the pipe to the fober fpondæus ? and

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yet our modern musicians want art to defend

"their windows from common nickers. It is well "known, that when the Lacedæmonian mob were "up, they commonly fent for a Lesbian mufician "to appease them, and they immediately grew "calm as foon as they heard Terpander fing *: yet

Ælian. Hift. Animal, lib. xi. cap. 18. and lib. xii, cap. 44. Pope.

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† Athenaeus, lib, xiv. Pope.
I Lib, de fanitate tuenda, cap. 2.
Quintilian, lib. 1. cap. 10. Pope.
Suidas in Timotheo. Pope,

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"I do not believe, that the Pope's whole band of "mufic, though the beft of this age, could keep "his Holiness's image from being burnt on the "fifth of November." "Nor would Terpander "himself, (replied Albertus) at Billingfgate, nor "Timotheus at Hockley in the Hole, have any "manner of effect, nor both of them together bring Horneck to common civility That's a grofs mittake, (faid Cornelius very warmly); "and to prove it fo, I have here a fmall lyra of my own, framed, ftrung, and tuned after the "ancient manner. I can play fome fragments of "Lesbian tunes, and I wish I were to try them upon the most paffionate creatures alive.""You never had a better opportunity (fays Alber"tus, for yonder are two apple-women fcolding, "and just ready to uncoif one another." With that Cornelius, undreffed as he was, jumps out into his balcony, his lyra in his hand, in his flippers, with his breeches hanging down to his ancles, a ftocking upon his head, and waift-coat of murrey-coloured fattin upon his body; he touched his lyra with a very unusual fort of an harpegiatura, nor were his hopes fruftrated. The odd equipage, the uncouth inftrument, the ftrangenefs of the man and of the music, drew the ears and eyes of the whole mob that were got about the two female champions, and at laft of the combatants themfelves. They all approached the balcony, in as close attention as Orpheus's first audience of cattle, or that of an Italian opera, when fome favourite air is juft awakened. This fudden effect of his mufic encouraged him mightily, and it was obferved he never touched his lyre in fuch a truly chromatic and enharmonic manner, as upon that occafion, The mob laughed, fung, jumped, and dan

Horneck, a fcurrilous fcribler, who wrote a weekly paper, called the High German Doctor. Pope.

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ced, and used many odd gestures, all which he judged to be caused by the various ftrains and modulations. "Mark (quoth he) in this, the power "of the Ionian: in that, you fee the effect of the "Eolian." But in a little time they began to grow riotous, and threw ftones. Cornelius then withdrew, but with the greatest air of triumph in the world. "Brother, faid he, do you obferve, I have "mixed unawares too much of the Phrygian; I "might change it to the Lydian, and foften their "riotous tempers. But it is enough. Learn from "this fample to speak with veneration of ancient "mufic. If this lyre, in my unfkilful hands, can " perform fuch wonders, what muft it not have "done in thofe of a Timotheus or a Terpander?" Having faid this, he retired with the utmost exultation in himself, and contempt of his brother; and it is said, behaved that night with fuch unufual haughtiness to his family, that they all had reafon to with for fome ancient tibicen to calm his temper.

CHA P. VII.

Rhetoric, logic, and metaphyfics.

CORNELIUS having, as hath been faid, many

ways been disappointed in his attempts of improving the bodily forces of his fon, thought it now high time to apply to the culture of his internal faculties He judged it proper, in the first place, to inftruct him in rhetoric, But herein we shall not need to give the reader any account of his wonderful progrefs, fince it is already known to the learned world by his treatise on this subject: I mean the admirable difcourfe gi Bates, which he wrote at this time, but concealed from his father, knowing

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his extreme partiality for the ancients. It lay by him concealed, and perhaps forgot among the great multiplicity of other writings, till about the year 1727, he fent it us to be printed, with many additional examples drawn from the excellent live poets of this prefent age. We proceed, therefore, to logic and metaphyfics.

The wife Cornelius was convinced, that thefe being polemical arts, could no more be learned alone, than fencing or cudgel playing. He thought it therefore neceffary to look out for fome youth of pregnant parts, to be a fort of humble companion to his fon in thofe ftudies. His good fortune directed him to one of the moft fingular endowments, whose name was Conradus Crambe, who, by the father's fide, was related to the Crouches of Cambridge, and his mother was coufin to Mr. Swan, gamefter and punfter of the city of London. So that from both parents he drew a natural disposition to fport himfelf with words, which, as they are faid to be the counters of wife men, and ready money of fools, Crambe had great ftore of cash of the latter fort. Happy Martin in fuch a parent, and fuch a companion! what might not he atchieve in arts and sciences !

Here I must premise a general observation of great benefit to mankind. That there are many people who have the ufe only of one operation of the intellect, though, like fhort-fighted men, they can hardly difcover it themfelves: they can form fingle apprehenfions *, but have neither of the other two faculties, the judicium or difcurfus. Now, as it is wifely ordered, that people deprived of one fense have the others in more perfection, fuch peo

When a learned friend once urged to our author the authority, of a famous dictionary maker against the Latinity of the expreffion. amor publicus, which he had ufed in an infcription, he replied, that he would allow a dictionary maker to understand a single word, but not two words put together. Warburton,

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ple will form fingle ideas with a great deal of vivacity; and happy were it indeed if they could con. fine themfelves to fuch, without forming judicia, much lefs argumentations.

Cornelius quickly discovered, that these two last operations of the intellect were very weak in Martin, and almoft totally extinguished in Crambe; however, he used to lay, that rules of logic are fpectacles to a purblind understanding, and therefore he refolved to proceed with his two pupils.

Martin's understanding was fo totally immerfed in fenfible objects, that he demanded examples from material things of the abstracted ideas of logic. As for Crambe, he contented himself with the words, and when he could but form fome conceit upon them, was fully fatisfied. Thus Crambe would tell his inftructor, that all men were not singular; that individuality could hardly be predicated of any man, for it was commonly faid, that a man is not the fame he was; that madmen are befides themfelves, and drunken men come to themfelves; which hows, that few men have that most valuable logical endowment, individuality *. Cornelius told Martin, that a fhoulder of mutton was an individual; which Crambe denied, for he had feen it cut into commons: that is true, quoth the tutor, but you never faw it cut into fhoulders of mutton : if it could, quoth Crambe, it would be the most lovely individual of the university. When he was told, a fubftance was that which was fubject to accidents; then foldiers, quoth Crambe, are the most fubftantial people in the world. Neither would he allow it to be a good definition of accident,

"But if it be poffible for the fame man to have distinct in"communicable confciou nefs at different times, it is without doubt "the fame man would, at different times, make different perfons. "Which we fee is the fenfe of mankind in not punishing the mad"man for the fober man's actions, nor the fober man for what the "mad-man did, thereby making them two perfons; which is fome"what explained by our way of fpeaking in English, when they fay "fuch an one is not himself, or is befide himself." Lock's Effay on Hum. Under, book ii. c. 27. Warburton,

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