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xx to be regretted. From a few paages that have been preerved, it is very probable he entered more largely into an examination of the compoition of monarchical republics than any other ancient writer. He was o far from apprehending "diputes" from a variety of orders, that he affirms it to be the firmet bond of jutice, and the tronget anchor of afety to the community. As the treble, the tenor, and the bas exit in nature, they will be heard in the concert; if they are arranged by Handel, in a kilful compoition, they produce rapture the mot exquiite that harmony can excite; but if they are confued together without order, they will

"Ut in fidibus ac tibiis, atque cantu ipo, a vocibus concentus et quidam tenendus ex ditinctis onis, quern immutatum ac dicrepantem aures eruditæ ferre non pount; ique concentus, ex diimillimarum vocum moderatione, concors tamen efficitur et congruens: ic ex ummis et infimis et mediis interjectis ordinibus, ut onis, moderata ratione, civitas conenu diimillimorum concinit; et quæ harmonia a muicis dicitur in cantu, ea et in civitate concordia, arctiimum atque optimum omni in republica vinculum incolumitatis; quæ ine jutitia nullo pacto ee tet.