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REMARKS 



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ARTS 

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temper of their inhabitants, give them a general turn for fenfual 

 pleafures: the lead happy occurrence in life is fufficient to infpire 

 them with a high degree of glee, which fets their whole body in 

 motion : they begin to frifk and dance, this makes acadenced or 

 meafured breathing neceffary ; if in this fituation man wiilies to 

 communicate his ideas to the by-ftanders, he will naturally give his 



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words that kind of meafure or cadence, which he has adopted 



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with his breathing, this, together with the voice of exultation 

 may be confidered as the firft origin of fmging and music : if the 



ideas he wants to exprefs 

 man, they will of courfe be more animated ; the images rufh forth 

 with uncommon rapidity, he has not time to exprefs the idea itfelf, 

 he fubftitutes therefore any thing nearly related or fimilar to \t, 

 he purfues every lively quality of the thing or perfon he fpeaks of, 

 and thus gives rife to poetry^ its imagery, metaphors, fimiles, 

 and the frequency of epithets. 



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a country for fome time, the inhabitants find likewife a pleafure in 

 reprefenting by mimic adions and words certain v/ell known fcenes 

 of life, interfperfed with fome coarfe joke 



by w^ords, are the true feelings of 



the 



When thefe arts have fubfifted in 



polilhed wit. The b 



d fome ftrokes of 



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they are able to imitate the true 



,charaders, the flronger they exprefs the dilharmony or difproportion 

 of thefe actions or charadlers, and the greater is the pleafure 



.they procure 



their audience; and thus do they give life and 



^xiilence 



