A brief state of the contests that have lately arisen in the Salisbury concert / By a subscriber.

Date:
1781
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A brief state of the contests that have lately arisen in the Salisbury concert / By a subscriber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ” ] part of the fubfcribers, but to diffent ? Men not wrought up to the pitch of Mr. Corfe’s friends could have fmall inclination to go their lengths, or ■to concur with them through mere complaifance. Here then naturally commenced a diverlity of con- dudl as well as of ientiment amongft the fubfcribers to the Concert, It is reafonable to enquire what was the com¬ plexion of the Concert upon the whole, when this meaiure was propofed by Mr, Corfe’s party. The members of the Subfcription-concert confifted at this time of three diftindt clalfes. There were Mr. Corfe’s friends, Mr. Parry’s friends, (for he too had friends who thought his welfare concerned in this matter no lefs than Mr. Corfe’s) and there were Neutrals, v/ho were totally indifferent as to the two profeffors, and flightly acquainted with either. Now Mr. Parry’s friends could not furely join in a defign which was evidently calculated to do him an injury, to lower him and leffen him, and to put another profeffor (who had no claim to fuch fuperiority) over his head. Still lefs could they be expedled to agree to fchemes expreflly contrived by •the friends of his competitor in order to be revenged on him, and on thofe by whom he had been pre¬ ferred. And as to the Neutrals, thofe who were biaffed by no perfonal regards to either of the pro- feffors;—could any one imagine that they would •on a fudden glow wi,th ardor for the fervice of Mr. Corfe ; that they would, for his fake, openly affront the Chapter with whom they have long lived in perfedt amity, by joining with thofe who had avowedly that delign ? Could any one conceive that they were blind to Mr. Parry’s merits as a profeffor;
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