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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1connection with playing most musical instruments, and least of all the Violin.
3DR. JOHNSON ON FIDDLING AND FREE WILL.
5"Johnson: 'Moral evil is occasioned by free will, which implies choice between good and evil. With all the evil that there is, there is no man but would rather be a free agent, than a mere machine without the evil; and what is best for each individual must be best for the whole. If a man would rather be the machine, I cannot argue with him. He is a different being from me.'
7"Boswell: 'A man, as a machine, may have agreeable sensations; for instance, he may have pleasure in music.'
9"Johnson: 'No, sir, he cannot have pleasure in music; at least no power of producing music; for he who can produce music may let it alone; he who can play upon a Fiddle may break it: such a man is not a machine.'"—"Tour to the Hebrides."
11HAYDN IN LONDON.—A "SWEET STRADIVARI."
13(BY PERMISSION OF MR. JOHN MURRAY.)
15The following extracts, taken from "A Country Clergyman of the Eighteenth Century," a pleasant and entertaining book (consisting of selections from the correspondence of the Rev. Thomas Twining, M.A.), cannot fail to interest the reader. The Rev. Thomas Twining was born in 1735. He was an excellent musician, both in theory and practice, and a lover of the Violin. He had collected much valuable information with regard to music, with a view to writing a history of the subject. Upon learning that Dr. Burney was engaged on his History of Music, he not only generously
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