the Latin Af t and the Greek AE. 



but of TO with emphafis, or EVEN TO. " CESAR poflefled 

 " fortitude, prudence, clemency ; joined EVEN TO that, he 

 " was ambitious, and a traitor to his country." 



Now, this emphatic meaning, which men were accujlomed to 

 annex to AT, in confequence of its being fo very frequently 

 employed to mark the union of incongruous objects, will fum 

 ciently account for its raifing an expectation that fomething ap- 

 parently oppofite, or incongruous, is to follow : For, no foon- 

 er is this emphatic meaning given to it, than fuch an expecta- 

 tion is raifed, and mujl be raifed, becaufe an emphatic intima- 

 tion of union' fupfiofes an incongruity in the objects united, and is 

 given in confequence of a perception of that incongruity. 'Thus, 

 " CJESAR poflefled fortitude, prudence, clemency ; joined EVEN 

 "TO that ." When thefe laft words are heard, we im- 

 mediately expect that fomething is to follow, apparently oppo- 

 fite to what is contained in the firft member of the'fentence. 

 We are prepared for fuch attributes as ambitious and a traitor to 

 his country. Thus, then, from the emphatic meaning given 

 to AT, an expectation was raifed that fomething incongruous 

 was to follow ; and, from its railing this expectation, the word 

 has prepofteroufly been imagined to exprefs that incongruity or 

 oppofition, which it only prefuppofes. 



ANY emphatic intimation of union, thrown into a fentence, 

 will raife an expectation that fomething incongruous is to be 

 fubjoined ; and the reafon is the fame in them all, namely, that 

 every fuch intimation is given on the fuppofition, that the ob- 

 jects are perceived to be naturally incongruous. " C^SAR was 



" brave, prudent, merciful; at the fame lime, he was ." 



Or, " CJESAR was brave, prudent, merciful ; notwithftanding that, 



" he was ." In thefe, as well as in the Latin example, 



we are led to expect that fome circumftance in the character 

 of CESAR is to follow, which we mould not have expected to 

 be united with the qualities, bravery, prudence, and clemency. 

 Yet the words, at the fame time, do not exprefs oppofition, and not- 



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