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telligible to thofe who no longer want fuch affiftance ; and 
i praftifed, would be intolerable to fingers and folo-players, 
who wih to be heard. through the tinkling of a harpfi- 
_ Cerna was {eldom heard in publie 7 his long re- 
fidence i nglan: His compofitions, fcholars,, and — 
prefents ‘he ed from the great, whenever he cou 
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prevailed upon to play at their houfes, were his chief fup- - 
port. In1731, he advertifed a “ weekly confort” of mufic, 
to be carried on at Hickford’s room, by fabfetinten, and: 
at which he played the firft violin. himfelf. This-c sae 
was advertifed to be. carried on the next year by 
at Dr vey lane theatre ; 
played a concerto, from the fifth folo s his une la bia 
and the tenth folo of the fame fet. 
of his being-a bad jena arithmetician, or cater or of 
time. After this, he went to Paris. re he continued 
till 1755, w En e 
ourg; baa yh of the 
nga om, hie s treated him with 
cumf{cribed in his ada, that he was on to sal te- 
pea to - the arts of een call i 
hi s fonatas into- concertos, by multiplying notes, and mee 
ing, and deforming, we think, thofe melodies, that 
more graceful 
After the publication of his fecon 
ae oe . ave eee the offspri 
sang of fo his produc- 
=) a little n 
deciions ee to be irrevocable in Engl: 
him to try his hand at buying cheap and felling ‘dear ; impo- 
fas upon grofler ignorance with falfe names, and pafling 0 off 
eopies for originals. As amufician, he was containly a great 
mafter of harmony, and very ufeful to our country in. his 
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| isa mine of. vitriol ;: 24 miles 
ane cir li 
and pleafing in their light original drefs. a 
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day 5 but though he had more variety of modulation, and 
more fkill i in diverfifying his parts than Corelli, his melody 
Was € 
: CEMINIA ANO,,. St., in Carel, -g town of Etruriz, 
feated on a mountain, with a beautiful _ 3 near which 
S. of Flor 
_GEMIST, rio in, Biogr ‘er pe minent Greek 
tion of a Platonic academy was laid at Florence, and und 
the inftruGiions of Gemift, the firft prefident, Marfilius Fie 
cinus, of that in{titution, was formed. After the termina-- 
tion of the council of Florence, Gemitt returned to Greece- 
ye eft umer 
ample evidence | of his und e adit is inti. 
er acquaintance with i Asana Philofophy. had 
ipal are “De Geltis Grecorum poft pugnam:ad* 
Differentia.”’ um 
theological, a rhetorical, - philofophical pieces :. 
alfo of a work e titled « ‘In Ora 
Commentarii,”’ ae ich 
of the Platonic philofophy. 
GEMMA, C 
was a phyfician, but diftinguithed ch 
cal and aftronomical knowledge. he was 
February, 1535. He became royal P 
in his native place in 156g, through the appointment of 
the duke of Alba, at which time he took the degree of: 
door. But he did not enjoy his konours pags years ; 
he was cut off by the plague, which raged at Louvain, on 
the. 
