A General History of Music Volume 1; From the Earliest Ages to the Present Periode to Which Is Prefixed, a Dissertation on the Music of the Ancients. Charles Burney
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 Excerpt: ...of rHiJloirc du del by de la Pluche, he a&s, " on what, then, is this author's paradox supported? On the common foundation of most modern philologic systems, etymologies; which, like fungous excrescescences, spring up from old Hebrew roots, mythologically cultivated. To be let into this new method of improving barren fense, we are to understand, that in the ancient Oriental tongues, the few primitive words must needs bear many different significations, and the numerous derivatives be infinitely equivocal. Hence any thing may be made of Greek proper names, by turning them to Oriental founds, so as to suit every system, past, present, and to come. To render this familiar to the reader, by example, M. Pluche's system is, that the Gentile Gods came from agriculture: all he wants, then, is to pick out, (consonant to the Greek proper names) Hebrew words which signify a plow, tillage, or ears of corn; and so hi business is done. Another comes, let it be Fourmont, and he brings news that the Greek Gods were Moses or Abraham, and the fame ductile sounds produce from the fame primitive words, a chief, a leader, or a true believer; and then, to use his words, Nitr qtfil s'agijji ici du fad Abraham, c'tft etre aveugle d esprit, & a'un aveuglement irremediable. A third and fourth appear npon the scene, suppose them Le Clerc and Banier; who, prompted by the learned Bochart, say that the Greek Gods were only Ph nician voyagers; and then, front the fame ready sources, flow navigation ships, and negociators; and when any one is at a loss in this game of crambo, which can never happen but by being duller than ordinary, the kindred dialects of the Chaldce and Arabic lie always ready to make Sir Isaac Newton tells us from Herodotus (e) that "the Ph ...
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