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Show [ 62 J \Vith wiry teeth revolving cards releafe 9 5 rrhe tangcd knots, and ftnooth the ravell' d fleece; Next n1oves the iron hand with fingers fine, Cmnbs the wide card, and forms the eternal line; S1ow, with foft lips, the •whirling Can acquires The tender ikeins, and wraps in riGng fpires; I oo With quicken' d pace fucce.flive rollers move, And thefe retain, and thofe extend the rove; Then fly the fpoles, the rapid axles glow, And ilowly circumvolves the labouring wheel below. P APYRA, throned upon the banks of Nile, 1 o 5 Spread her finooth leaf, and waved her filver fl:yle. t'yprur. Papyrus. I. 105. Three males, one female. The leafofthisplant was firfl: tlfcd for paper, whence the word paper; and leaf, or folium, for a fold of a book. Afterwards the bark of a fpecies of mulberry was ufed; whence liba lignifies a book, and the bark of a tree. Before the invention of letters mankind may be faid to have been perpetually in their infancy, P.S the arts of one age or country generally died with their inventors. Whence arofe the policy, which fiill continues in Hindofian, of obliging the fon to praCl.ife the profeffion of his father. After the clifcovery of letters, the fatl:.5 of Afironomy and Chemifl:ry became recorded in written language, though the antient hieroglyphic charatl:ers for the planets and metals continue in ufe at this day. The antiquity of the invention of mufic, of afl:ronomical obfervations, and the manufaClure of Gold and Iron, are recorded in Scripture. ___.'fhe fioried pyramid, the laurel' d bufi, The trophy' d arch had crumbled into dufi ; The fc'lcred fymbol, and the epic fong, (Unknown the charaB:er, forgot the tongue,) With each unconquer' d chief, or fainted maid, Sunk undifiinguifhed in 9blivion' s iliade. Sad o'er the fcatter' d ruins Genius figh" d, And infant Arts but learn' d to lifp and died. Till to afioniih' d realms P APYRA taught 'ro paint in 1nyfiic colours Sound and Thought. With Wifdom's voice to print the page fublime, And mark in adamant the fieps of Time. -Three favour' d youths her foft attention fhare, The fond difciples of the fiudious Fair, IIO II$ !20 About twenty letters, ten cyphers, and feven crotchets, reprefent by their nu~erous com b.m at·w ns a II our ·1c(eas and fenfati ons! the mufJcal characters are profbfi adb ly arnveIdI at their erfeetion, unlefs emphalis, and tone, and fwell, could_be expre e : as we as p I . Cl lcs the Twelfth of Sweden, han a dehgn to have mtroducecl a note anc t1me. 1ar ' . · fi d 1 !is . b f, . 1fl:ead of by dec imation, wluch mJght have erve t le purpo c numeration Y quares, 11 • • faid to be of Arabic invention. of philofophy better than the prefen t mode, which IS I ld exprcfs T he alphabet is yet in a very. ·u npenre cnt. fnl a t c '. perhaJ1S feventeen etters cou I d In China they have not yet carne all the limple founds in the European languages. 0' d to employ many thoufand to. divide their words into fyllables, and are the;c: nee~ lta~~ed in thi~ ingenious age, charatl:ers; it is faid above eighty thoufand. t IS to e WI ' that the European ,nations would accord to reform our alphabet. |