‘140, Mr. Harvey's Obfervations 
lefs degree vowels or diphthongs, from being termed 
confonants. Now to miftake thefe and ufe them 
indifcriminately and unnaturally, though the words, 
wherein they are fo ufed, may, like fome hiero- 
glyphics, be from habit, well underftood; yet it 
mutt affuredly be acknowledged as a blemifh to the 
appearance, and fome little impediment to the arts 
of writing and printing, to employ a fuperfluity of 
letters where fewer would fuffice, if due deference 
were paid to the fimplicity of nature, and the 
analogy of reafon. For, in order to produce har- 
mony from the combination of principles, whether 
it fhould be in painting, mufic, or language; or in 
fhort, in any fubject improveable by art, analogy 
and proportion fhould be carefully regarded. ‘* Que 
® enim eft pars mundi que non innumerabiles habeat analo- 
“© gias? Calum an mare, an terra, an atr, et cetera 
“© que funt in hes?” * 
Should any one, therefore, wifh to excel in the 
practice of painting, or of mufic, he ought without 
doubt, to be well acquainted with the nature and 
variety of colours, ere he fhould attempt to mix and 
_ fpread them on his canvas; or with the proportionate 
and moft minute divifions of found, fuitable to com- 
pofition, before he fhould attempt to write a Solo or 
Concerto. So in painting words to the eye, it 
feems in the firft place neceffary to underftand the 
elements, of which, according to their various inflec- 
tions, 
* Ter, Varronis De Ling, Lat, lib, viii. 
