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he kept his word ftrifter than Pamphilio 
had imagined he would ; for before leav- 
ing the library he himfelf fhut the door, 
and faid to Moutier—Now we are all 
here, fee if your books are right, that 
afterwards there may arife no complaint. 
Moutier running over the books with 
his hands and eyes, difcovered that one 
was miffing.—Search then, cried the car- 
dinal, every one of us. All willingly 
ofiered themfelves but Parsphilio, who 
would not fuifer the other to approach 
him. Sufpicion was confirined. Mou- 
tier and Pamphilio came to blows; but 
Pamphilio, bony and robuft as he was, 
got himfelf fo entangled with his long 
robes that he had the worft of the match ; 
and the book was at length drawn out of 
his pocket. Shame in his face, and fore- 
nefs in his limbs—he from that moment 
formed a proje&t of continued perfecution 
to the Barberini family, and the hatred 
which he always teftified againft the 
crown of France, during the ten years 
of his pontificate, is attributed to this 
circumftance. Under the name of In- 
nocent X. he expelled that family froin 
Rome. : 

BISHOP HALE. 
It was a quaint but not unmeaning 
“conceit of this excellent fatirift, when he 
divided his fatires into two clafies—tooth- 
jefs and biting fatires. He has publifhed 
them in fix books. ‘The three firft he 
calls toothle/s, being a fubjeét ‘poetical, 
academical, and moral;” the three laft, 
relating to objects of common life, he 
has entitled dzting.—He has thus very 
happily difcriminated the different in- 
terefts ordinary readers tafte in the dif- 


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T “HE fixft Rudiments on the Piana-ferte, ac- 
~ cording to an approved method of teach- 
ing beginners, containing an explanatory intro- 
duttion, and a feries of ~progrefive leffcns and 
fonatinas, by A.F.C. Kollman, Organift of 
his Majeftys German Chapel, St. Fantess, 
Mr. Kellman, in his intreduction to 
this ufeful work, properly obferves, that 
$¢ it is very dificult fo to inftruct a be- 
ginner, that, on the one hand, he fhail 
not be detained from the keys, and be- 
come difeufted with the preparatory ftudy; 
nor, on the other, be prematurely put to 
the inftrument.”> This judicious medium 
he has happily fucceeded in attaining ; 
and, as he himfelf obferves, the pupil, 
by a due obfervation of his rules, may 
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cuffion of mere abftra& truths, and that 
‘diarnal knowledge which comes home to 
our bofoms. 
. THE AMBIGUOUS. . 
_A fatirift wrete a poem againft ?Am- 
bigu, or the ambiguous. By this title 
he defcribed the brother of the cardinal 
Perron. There is great humour in this 
fatirical fancy. He fays, one cannot 
decide whether it were day or night-when™ 
he came into the world. He was born an 
hermaphrodite ; and the midwife, when 
he was bern, cried to his mother—_ 
Madam! your fon I think is a daughter, 
or your daughter isa fon. He was 
named Lyfifque, that the ambiguity of 
his name. might not denote his fex. He 
has lately given the public a work ;-but, 
notwithftanding this he is no author, be- 
caufe it is a mere tranilation. 
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2 LULLY. 
The Handel of France, whenever he 
told a ftory, of which generally he had 
always one at hand, was obliged to 
mount on a ftool, or at leaft to ftand up, 
that he might have room for gefticula- 
tion and action, as if he had been beat- 
ing meafure ; and had fo contraéted the 
habit, that he could not fpeak for any — 
length without it. “ He would, fays 
Furetiere, fuffer any raillery or abufe 
without refentment ; but if he were-told 
his mufic was bad, he uied to fay, that 
he fhould not mind to kill any man who 
dared to condemn his works, of which, 
he faid, he was too ftudious, and too 
zealous in his ftudy, to admit, that any 
one but an artift, could decide on; not, 
however (he added), that I can expegt 
truth from the mouth of a rival. 


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learn without being fenfible of his own 
labour, and avoid’ thofe obftruting thorns 
and brambles which impede the impe- - 
tuous practitioner. He lays nothing be- 
fore his fcholar without a clear and fufii- 
cient explanation ; and he leads him pro- 
ereflively through the feveral branches of 
the icience. His diretions for fitting at 
the inftrument are favourable to an eafy 
and elegant. performance ; and his rules 
for the pofition of the hands, and the or- 
dering of the fingers, are evidently the 
refult of much geod underftanding and 
experience. His exercifes are examples 
to his own precepts, and, prattifed with 
a proper attention, cannot fail to eafe and 
facilitate the progrefs of the {cholar. 
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