APPENDIX. 



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Number I. 



ONE of thefe learned doftors fliall himfelf decide the point. " Quod 

 ad veros horum verfuum numeros, ad rythmum et moduiationem attinet, 

 id omne et penitus ignotum eft, et nulla unquam arte aut induftria 

 humana inveftigari poteft." « Manifeftum eft antiquam et veram He- 

 braica pronuntiandi rationem omnino effe ignotam." And again more 

 particularly, " De verfuum fingulorum numeris nihil certo definiri poteft." 

 " Profefto qui metricam Hebrasam veram illam et genuinam inftaurare 

 conatur, is sdificium extruit, cui fundamentum in quo nitatur plane deeft." 

 Pral. 3d. « Quanquam Hieronymus de metris Hebraicis multa difputat, 

 multa de tetrametris et hexametris, de iambicis et fapphicis memorat, 

 ea tamen omnia nimium urgenda effe res ipfa oftendit ; etenim plane 

 pingui, quod aiunt, Minerva agit, in Hebraicis remotam quandam fimi- 

 litudinem Grascorum metrorum qusrens." (Prsel. 18.) 



Here, then, the learned Doftor afferts as Profejor, that which, as 

 author of the Confutatio, he denies ; for it requires no long argument 

 to prove, that if in the Hebrew ^potiry femper habetur ratio, it is im-- 

 poffible that fuch ratio fliould be penitus et omnino ignota. Thefe in- 

 ftances, however, felefted out of fifty others, will fuffice to prove, that 

 whatever might have been the genius or ftruaure of the Hebrew verfe ; 



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