1810.] 
both of a nominative and an accusative ; 
€¢ In him who is, and him who finds, a 
friend.” 2 
A construction of the same description 
occurs in 1 Corinth. ii. 9. ‘* Eye hath 
not seen, nor ear beard, neither have 
entered into the heart of man, the things 
which God hath prepared for them that 
love him,” 
All the precedihg instances however, 
Y am inclined to think, should be referred 
to the use of the figure ellipsis, rather 
than attributed, onthe principles of your 
correspondent, to the equivocal use of 
one word in two cases, as the real repre- 
sentative of two distinct relations. In- 
deed, it appears to me not a little prepos- 
terous to suppose, that a word can be 
so employed. Univocainess, it is well 
known, isthe very life of perspicuity 3 
and if the constracticn be allowed to be 
elliptical (and that it is 1 cannot doubt), 
the ellipsis of the noun is not likely to 
be so generally reprobated as that of the 
‘relative. Your’s, &c. 
Crouch End, J. GRANT. 
February 10, 1810. 
a 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
‘ WELL-meaning letter of some un- 
. known friend, respecting me; in your 
Magazine for last month, occasions me:to 
trouble your readers with this. 
There was a report lately of my decease ; 
and I was neticed as having departed 
from this world, in many of the daily 
rints. 
_ My heatth had then suffered extremely, 
insomuch that at.one time, when travel- 
ing from Chard to Sherborne, £ expected 
to expire in the chaise. 
_ Nevertheless, here I am still: the ma- 
lice of my enemies has not been able to 
send me to hell, nor has it been the good 
pleasure of my heavenly Father, as yet, 
to call me to heaven. But I wait for his 
summons in the shade of retirement. 
Judging that neither the history, nor 
the opinions, of an obscure individual, can 
be at all interesting to the public, I shall 
neither supply deficiencies, nor rectify 
mistakes, in either; excepting it be with 
respect to one passage, where it is said 
that “ my views opened but by little and 
little, and therefore, I then thought Dr.’ 
Priestley went too wide.” On this I judge 
it right to observe, that on some few 
points [ think so still. I was well ac. 
quainted with Dr. Priestley, and held him 
in very high esteem; but my theological 
greed never entirely agreed with his. 
Dr. Pike.—A Plagiarism. 109 
With very different portions of intellect 
allotted to us, we cannot see alike, noris 
it needful that we should. The wisest of 
our race sees now but as through a glass, 
dimly or uncertainly. 
Edmonton, 
February 9,1810. 
pan rernceel 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazwne. 
SIR, 
N your Number for Apriblast there is an 
article on musical genius and compo- 
sition, signed Great Marlow, A. R, E, 
which appears to ibe derived, in a very 
great degree, from my essay, entitled 
Your’s, &c. 3 
J.B. Prxz. 
«© Melody the Soul of Music,” without re- | 
yerring to it in any manner. If this is 
intentional, it is certainly very unfair: 
if accidental; it is a literary curiosity, so 
striking are the coincidences. Sometimes 
A. R, E.’s dissertation seems grounded on 
the ideas of my essay, sometimes is a 
“mere variation, then an amplification, 
and sometimes very nearly copied. On 
comparison, the truth of this will appear, 
in the passages which treat of the natural 
sounds, the derivation of music from them, 
ancient powers of music, simplicity, mo- 
dern refinement, complication, &c. 
Possibly A. R. E. may have intended 
to refer to the original source of his dis-~ 
sertation, and afterwards forgot it. It4s 
the more likely, as he makes a direct 
allusion to the title of my essay by the 
phrase “ Body of Music ;” which, how- 
ever, he qualifies with the pareuthesis 
“if [ may use the expression,” ‘as if in- 
tending no allusion. | 
It is usual for orators to sum up their - 
matter in a few words. Query: Does 
A. R. E. mean to do this in the last 
-words of his dissertation, “a mass of 
well-concealed plagiarism ?” 
For the sake of literary justice and cue 
riosity, I shall expect a speedy explana- 
tion. Your's, &c. 
Glasgow, A. MoLvesons 
October 28, 1809. 
—— ae . 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SPRY) 
HE enquiry of your correspondent 
signing G. B., in the Number for 
May, after a composition for removing 
grease-spots from paper, I considered 
too interesting, so long to escape the 
notice of readers possessing more leisure 
tlian myself. 
The following simple method I have 
often proved to be much more effectual 
than the use of turpentine ; and once in 
‘particular, upon a folio of a ledger which 
had 
