1796. ] Dr. Beddses on Kant. 
wich grief ina fingle night. But let a 
perfon of humour, by way of reply, feri- 
oufly and circumftantially relate how a 
merchant, on his return home with all 
his whole fortune in goods, was obliged 
to throw them all overboard during a 
violent ftorm, and that the lofs affecicd 
him fo, that the very fame night his 
periwig turned- grey; and we fhail 
laugh aloud. For we feel pleafure .in 
ftriking to and fro the idea we are catch- 
ing at, as if it were a ball. We are not 
delighted, becaufe a liar or a blockhead 
is fet dow, for this would not be worth 
while ;-and the latter ftory told with a 
goed face, would of itfelf cccafion a burft 
of laughter. 
“Tn all fuch cafes, it. 2s remarkable, 
that the joke muft contain fomething ca- 
pable of deceiving for a moment. As 
foon, therefore, as thé appearance va- 
nifhes, the mind looks back, to be fure 
whether it is’ fo; and thus, by a rapid 
fuccefficn of exertion and relaxation 
C anipannung und abfpannung) 1s thrown 
into ofcillations. The receffion from 
that which drew the chord being fudden, 
and not as if it had been let gradually go, 
‘a movement of mind, and a correfpond- 
ing internal agitation of body, takes 
place, and continues involuntaril y> pro- 
ducing wearineis, and at the fame time 
exhilaration, which are the effects of a 
movement that contributes to health. 
“ Affuming that with all our thoughts, 
‘corporeal movements are harmonicaliy 
connected, we can pretty well conceive 
‘how the fudden removal of the mind, 
from ftation to ftation, in order to con- 
fider its object, is anfwered by a reci- 
procating contraction and dilatation of 
the elaftic parts of our vifcera. Thefe 
are communicated to the diaphragm, 
which (as from tickling) throws the air 
out by fudden jerks, and occafions a 
healthy concuflion. This alone, and not 
what paffes in the mind, is the true 
caufe of the pleafure derived from a 
thought, which in reality contains no- 
thing. Voltaire fays, that providence has 
given us Aope and fleep, as a compenfa- 
‘tion for the many cares of life. He might 
have added /augitcr, if the wit and ori- 
ginality of humour, neceilary to excite it 
among rational people, were not as rare, 
as the talent for bead-hreaking, neck-break- 
ing, and heart-brceaking fictions, is com- 
‘ion among our myftics, efprits forts, 
and fentimental novelitts, refpectively. 
“& We may, then, I think, concede to 
_ Epicurus what he contends for, ‘All plea- 
fure, cyen that excited by objects of tafe, 
leéted, Mans 
. Mr. Oulton on Malone. 267 
confifts in animal or bodily feeling.’ In 
granting fo much, we thall not in the 
leat degrade the /piritwal fenfe of relpedt 
for moral ideas. This is not pleafure, 
but felf-efteem, which raifes us above 
the want of it.’ Neither will the con- 
ceflion be any degradation of the lefs 
noble pleafure’ of tafte.”’ 
You, Mr. Editor, will join with me in 
wiihing this celebrated code of metas 
phyfics were tranflated, that its preten- 
fions may be examined in the country of 
Locke and Horne Tooke. But I fhould 
be forry to fee it undertaken by a man 
not mafter of the two languages. 
Iam, Sir, your’s, 
Mareb 28,1796. TLHomas BEDDCES. 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
MB: Malone, in his Inguiry into the 
Authenticity of the Papers attri- 
buted to Shakfpeare, has objeéted (p. 
164) to HEAVEN being ufed as a dif- 
fyllable; but he has fince, I find, recol- 
Shakf{peare bas made ufe of it 
as fuck in Macbeth— 
«¢ Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a a knell, 
“ That furnmons thee to Heaven, or to hell!” 
Now I could have pointed out feveral 
other places where Shakfpeare has given 
it as a word of two fyllables, though, in 
fome of his editions, it is very erroneoufly 
marked with an apoftrophe in thofe 
places, asa monofyllable. Let the Four 
following examples fuffice for the pres 
fent: 


“ Q you are men of ftone. 
« Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d ufe them fo, 
“ That Heaven’s vault thou’d crack: fhe’s gone 
for ever! 
LEAR, A@ 5. 
“¢ Now let the rain of Heaven wet this place, 
“ To waih away my woeful monuments.?’ 
Henry VI. 2d Part, AG 3. 
‘© How much thou wrong’it me, Heaven be my 
judge.” 
Thid. AG 4. 
“ By Heaven I had rather com my heart, 
“¢ And drop my blood for drachmas, than to 
& wring 
«“ From the hard hands of peafants, their vile 
“ trath 
“¢ By any indirection.’’ 
-JuLtius Czsar, A 4. 

In fhort, this.word (as well as Seven, 
Given, Driven, &c.) when it happens to 
be the fecond or fixth ina inn, appears 
to be then as frequently ufed for ¢qwo fret 
Mm. as 
