The Jew's harp has three different tones; the bass tones of the first octave bear some resemblance to those of the flute and clarionet; those of the middle and high, to the vox humana of some organs; lastly, the harmonical sounds are exactly like those of the harmonica.

Nec pueros coram populo MEDEA trucidet Aut humana palam coquat extra nefarius ATREUS, Aut in avem PROGNE vertatur, CADMUS in anguem.

Et querimur genus infelix, humana labare Membra aevo, cum regna palam moriantur et urbes.

Dum intrassem tot humana cadauera ibi vidi, quod nisi quis videret, credere non posset.

Sciatis ad paucas inde dietas grandem insulam haberi gigantum, ad straturam altitudinis viginti quinque pedum nostrorum, de quibus ipse vidi nonnullos, sed extrà terram eorum, et audiuimus esse intrinsecùs quosdam triginta pedum, et vltrà: hi operiuntur non vestibus, sed bestiarum pellibus vtcunque sibi appensis, comedentes animalium carnes crudas, et lac pro potu sorbentes, atque appetentes super omnem esum carnes humanas.

Panicis terroribus plenissima sint praesertim humana.

" "Whose wit excell'd the wits of men as far, As the sun rising doth obscure a star," Or that so much renowned Empedocles, "Ut vix humana videatur stirpe creatus.

leagues and laws of arms, (silent leges inter arma,) for their advantage, omnia jura, divina, humana, proculcata plerumque sunt; God's and men's laws are trampled under foot, the sword alone determines all; to satisfy their lust and spleen, they care not what they attempt, say, or do, Rara fides, probitasque viris qui castra sequuntur.

Howsoever as Martianus foolishly supposeth, Aetherii Daemones non curant res humanas, they care not for us, do not attend our actions, or look for us, those ethereal spirits have other worlds to reign in belike or business to follow.

Pythonissae vocum varietatem in ventre et gutture fingentes formant voces humanas a longe vel prope,

Fatendum est cacumine Olympi constitutus supra ventos et procellas, et omnes res humanas.

Qui prae divitiis humana spernunt, nec virtuti locum putant nisi opes affluant.

Alii negant esse deos, alii deos non curare res humanas, alii utraque concedunt.

The hideous sound filled all the room with an extraordinary, grotesque parody of human whistling, too gigantic to be humanas if something gargantuan and monstrous made the sounds softly.

Humana virtus non sibi sufficit; Datur nec aequum cuique animum sibi Parare posse, utcunque jactet Grandiloquus nimis alta Zeno.

Datur haec venia antiquitati ut miscendo humana divinis primordia urbium augustiora faciat, and if the inconsistency with his philosophy were stressed he could refer to Lucretius' proemium.

Ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendor maculis, quas aut Incuria fudit, Aut Humana parum cavit Natura.

Humana autem anima rationalis est, quae mortalibus peccati poena tenebatur, ad hoc diminutionis redacta ut per conjecturas rerum visibilium ad intelligenda invisibilia niteretur; that is, "The human soul is still rational, but in such a manner that, being by the punishment of sin detained in the bonds of death, it is so far reduced that it can only endeavour to arrive at the knowledge of things invisible through the visible.

His careful fingers found a chord, and the yellow notes responded with their sweet, thin cadencethe vox humana stop was out.

You go after it, my boyit's all thereappassionatooboe'consharto'vox humana and the whole system" ...

"Nec pueros coram populo Medea trucidet: Aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus; Aut in avem Progne vertatur, Cadmus in anguem.

'Omnia profecto, cum se à coelestibus rebus referet ad humanas, excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet.' Cicer.

Te sedem Hominum ac Domum contemplarique si tibi parva (ut est) ita videtur, hæc coelestia semper Spectato; illa humana contemnito.' Cicero Somn.

[Footnote 157: Cowper's verse in The Task seems to be all that is happy in the way of translation of Varro's text, "divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes": but Cowley's "God the first garden made, and the first city Cain" was probably Cowper's source.

Suddenly there was a break in the silence, a weird, thrilling sound, like a great sigh, but not humana sound to make one's blood run faster and fingers twitch on rifle-stock.