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AWM.729.018
7-14 Aug 1729:21 (501)
. . . [31 lines of discourse on plagiarism] Elocution is
not unlike musick; there is scarce a soul so rustick as not
to admire both in their excellency, altho` the masters of
those sciences may lose their proper share of the praise:
He that, having laid before him the several parts of a
musical instrument, can unite them in their places, and tune
them to harmony, merits the appellation of a master in
musick and should be distinguish'd as such, as he that
disposes words into grammatical sentences, and eloquent
periods, is a master of language. There is indeed this
difference between one and the other, that musick, being
only convey'd from the artist's hand to the hearers ear, is
not liable to be stolen away; while the most celebrated
writings, out of the hearing of their known authors, are
subject to the ungenerous adoption of unworthy plagiaries.
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