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Egyptian temples, and he was commonly exhibited under 
, crowned with an Egyptian 
snitre, holding in one hand a.cornucopia, and in the other 
_ the oe leanne —— by this — to ar that 
he gods were-t 
ods were = Hot to sleds of 
them -rafhly. There was even.a law, according to Varro, 
which forliads any, — pain ef death, to fay that Serapis 
had been a mortal man ;. and as in the temples of Ifis there 
was an idol, that is, an ’ Harpocrates —e the finger to 
his mouth, Varro was of opinion, that he was placed there 
to re pom nd:filence as to that article. Sisabooies and 
Orus, or Horus, are fuppofed to have been the fame perfon 5 
and as the latter was among the Egyptians the fymbol of 
the fun, the latter is thought to have.reprefented the fame 
perfon. Accordingly he is fometimes exhibited under the 
figure of a child, ning out of the flower of the lotus, - with 
hie head encompatled by rays, and with a’ whip in his hand, 
to denote the rifing iu 
HARPOCRAT IANS, a fec& of — mentioned by 
fee sg a 8 shetorician 63 
Alexandria, flourifhed in the laut century.» He 
4s J.exicon of ten Greek Orators,’’ in which he treats oben ma- 
giltrates, courts of juttice, forms of p <asndt diftriéts, men 
m_ public ftations, &c. © ve been feve ral 
modern .editions of this work. ore’ 
~ HA RPONELLY, in Gage a circa of Hindooftan, 
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rio put 120 miles in length, and _ in breadth. “After do 
the death of Tippoo, it was furrendered 
Alfo, the ee of the circar = the Taste name 5 Sa miles 
N. ores N. lat. 1 ', Ex long. 75° 28!. 
HARPSICHORD, in Hs icy akeyed iehrumeats of the: 
slog kind. It is in fact a horizontal harp, which initrument, if 
Sirung with wire, ae anh a‘quill like a mandoline, 
would have the fi ects Its tone is produced by jacks 
qu croy n quills, (See Jack.) A fingle 
Rarplichord of. two vnifons i one fet of keys, was, in effect, 
a double Sprvet or Virc 
But a double harpfichrd uted to have two-fets of keys 
and three ftrings, two unifons and an o¢taye to each note. 
Merlin, we believe, was the frft who changed the o€tave itop 
toa third “aaibtas about the year 17705 which. rendered the 
suede’ by ches of rage “te his family ; 
m Be ence Cou and"Kirkman, and Shadi, 
ee the bigenieg: f ibedeih, contitey schiaiios 
wever, in of ¢) 
harpfichords were im nted at = vai aie is a 
defcription in the Giornale d'Ttalia, 1711. The invention 
snetin, Deira a flow. —— was brought to 
England. was made by an soegite monk at. ‘Rome, Father 
a for an Englifh friend. (the late Samuel Crifp, efq. 
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‘fa eons 
o the Mahra' ote 
Tt. 
: fortes and organs, in which the fliders are moved —s 
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HAR 
of Chefington, author of Virginia, a Fragedys ma) a man 
of learning, and of exquifite a in Fg heir the 
The tone of this inftrument w Fag hat to iS shoe 
duced by quills, with the additional power o of producin ing an 
the fhades of piano and forte by the finger, that though the 
touch and mechanifm were fo imperfect that nothing quick 
could-be executed upon it, yet the dead march in Saul, and 
other folemn and pathetic esiiny when-executed with tafe 
and feeling by a matter a little accuftomed to the touch, 
excited equal ines and delight’ to the hearers. - Fulk 
Greville, efq. purchafed this inftrument of Mr. Crifp for 
100 guineas, and it.remained unique in this country for feveral 
years, till Plenius, the maker of the tyricherd, tuned by 
weights, and the tone produced by wheels, made'a “pina decks 
in imitation of that of Mr. Gr ae, Of this eerie: the 
nai but the tone, wits al 
Schroeter’s touchy loft the f{pirit of the harpfichord, and 
gained nothing in Geottcnte. ; 
After the arrival of John Chr. Banke iy this country, and 
the eftablifhment of his concert, in conjun¢tion with Abel, 
all the harpfichord makers tried es mechanical powers at 
piano-fortes ; but the firft attempts were always on the large 
lize, till Zumpé, a German, who had long worked under 
Shudi, conftruéted fmall piano-fortes of the thape and fize 
of she virginal, of which the tone was very ee and the 
by Merlin, and in the tone by Broadwood and Stoddare, 
the harfh {eratching of the quills of’ a harpfichord can now 
aeane the laft century, the emi 
compo rplichords 
were Domenico Sears, Alberti, Paradies, an ments 
aa our great organ players, Kelway, Dr. Worgans 
r.C. Burney acquired great Hig = their, per- 
foamies in on the harpfichord, as did Mrs. W 
and Mrs. C. Burney. In France, Couperin, "Taig, Balbaitre, 
Schobert at Strafbourg, and in Germany Emanue el “a 
innumerable others. Dr. Smith, for applying his his f en of 
equal harmony to practice, added eight Benes A to _ 
' mon harpfichord ; but the inconvenience of mo 
Loefchman’s sens pianor 
andthe feale is allo extended to-24 notes in the o¢ta 
HARPY, in Ornithology, the trivial name of eh 2 Gath 
eine arcobufio, or abufo, of areas a'bow, and buf 4 
holes on ie oe which the en 
2 ity and that ceeded to the bows of ef 
ts. he hab roperly a fire-arms 
length of amufket or fo whinge -cockéd ell 
