FRA 
vanced age, and Seserae that a ancients, to. whom he 
generoufly. gave all good things, c do without coun- 
terpoint, made them a prefent of - that harmony, with which 
his aged ears were fo pleafed. 
The paffage in queftion is in the feventh book of Laws, in 
which Plato determines that the proper time oF young 
perfons to learn mufic is from foe en. to fixteen years of 
age ; during which ad he fuppofed they might be enabled 
to fing i in unifon with the iN and to pala good mufic 
he bad ; that is, fuch a e grave, decorous, and 
m thofe nat were of a light and 
was, befides, of fo difficult a eee 
a bour iss 
ot 
me 
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which is the following : in 
ps accompaniment of the hee in which the ftrings produce 
while the melody compofed by the poet produces 
ae ms Mase poet cae fet his own ver whence pean 
the affem of denfe and.rare, of quick and flow, acute 
and grave, ae well as of concord and dj viard Though the 
abbé _Fraguier tranflates — di iffonancey it is not the true 
wor ta rca n it be ft 
any lexicon, or Gree on mufi 
eechnicsl meaning will ie ie exter ou as ‘ides 
ecife and 
the 
nowing how to adjuft the rhythm, or inca fire, to al the i 
aa of theyre: thefe are not sees it for — to 
m three years only - allowed for learning merely = 
eae ae of future ufe to them. Such contracts of Saag 
difficulties i in the ftudy and prattice of mufic, 
t . not. a alan h ue enter into a verbal 
criticitin’ of thi a as it has been _underfto od: and 
tranflated by the abbé Fraguier ; 
ee hes one from aida and one from Macro 
hee or has given by way of aaaagloaen in fupport of 
his he of the paflage in Plat e fhall confign 
him and his fancied proofs i in fayour of ae counterpoint 
to his brother academician M. Burette, the moft able writer, 
in _many Leaded of all thofe who have — them- 
URETTE. 
The ingenious “opponent of the abbé Fraguier aes that 
the famous paflage in Plato upon which fo ‘ak ftrefs has 
been laid, implies no more than .a concert of voices and ‘in- 
OliVCL Is 
ftruments in unifon and odtaves, like plain-cha t 
Romifh church. He proves alfo that Plato determines the 
word harmony to no mor a melo the 
rave and acute founds are mixed in a fuccedign, accor to 
a. 
2dly. Why a fingle Pa ea 
ives more fe re union or concert of many in- 
ents Lacon te in unifons and o€taves? gdly. Why 
are unifons and. the only accompaniments can be 
Suffered in concerts, and why are the 4th and 5th, though 
qualified with the name of perfect concords, excluded? 
oun a vette and t 
FRA 
The abbé Fraguier was bag oe but as firm! 
Pr ene to his original opin any others have done, 
and ftill do, though fappcaeds oh ia learning; fo that 
eir obftinacy is one degree lefs blameable. It feems as if 
ad rooted pee es of wife men were harder to eradicate 
an thofe o nce = Paper ele ee is. well known. 
ae Fontenell-’s 8 pene chm Cartefianifm was never 
fhaken ; for after the does of 'N ees “had ey 
throughout Europe, he publifhed his «'Théor 
illons reer ee) ’ at the age of near a indeed The abbé. 
Fraguier die 2 
FRAIG 7, or Freicnr, in Navigation and Commerce,. 
the hire of a fhip, or of a part of it, for the conveyan 
carriage of goods from one port or place to another; or the 
fum agreed on pagel the owner and the merchant, for the- 
hire and ufe of a 
The word is. jae of the French fret, fignifying the 
fame thing; or from fret, or fretum, e feas. 
though others chufe to derive it from the German faci; or 
the Flemith vracht, fignifying carriage. 
The fraight of a ecu is ufually agreed on either fea a 
rate of fo much for the 
The burt then of the 
ip is gen nerally meationed in the contra&, .¢. . 360 tons or 
thereabouts ; and the yea a thould an exceed 
the exa& meafur ove five t ain fum be agreed 
fall. quantity: 
of goods agreed. on in the charter-party, an he fhall pay the. 
whole fraight ; and if he load more, he fhall pay for the. 
excels. 
If atime be appointed by: charter-party,. = either. pi 
fhip be not ready to take or the merchant to put o 
board, the parties are at liberty, with remedy by action ic 
the detrim 
If part on beard, and fome misfortune prevent the. 
merchant’s fending the whole 1 in time, the mafter may con- 
tract with another, and have spin as damage for the time 
they were on board longer than limited. 
other hand, if the ve 7 is not eeedy the 
chant aay thip the remainder of his goods aboard ape 
other 
neceffity,. will e er, he. lofes. his: fraight 
till he breaks em But if the aie be in oe - 
muft anfwer the. damages, or be liable to maintain the c 
ten days ;. and, if after that, the full frai ve 3 if eee 
afterwards, it is the merchant’s rifk : but by the common 
_ law, a the goods: are on board, the matter, muit fee them 
forth-co 
if ae are re fully laded,, and the thip hath broke ground, 
but the merchant sGierward declines the adve and 
unlades again, by. the law marine the fraight is. due ue: ae if 
he unload before the thip has. actually failed,. he will in fuch 
ale be only eee es for dama ay 
If an embargo be laid .on the thip before fhe fails, the 
charter-party is diffolved, and the merchant pays t the ex- 
pence 
