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logics of each particular tongue, the languages themselves will 

 be again re-constructed. 



In comparing the elements of different languages with one 

 another, we shall be much assisted by a tabular arrangement 

 which shall present, as at one view, those elements which are 

 nearly allied, both in radical meaning and sensible or external 

 character. For example, to take the roots in five different 

 languages, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, and English, of 

 the words signifying to hear, a sack, wine, we shall arrange 

 them in parallel rows, corresponding to each particular lan- 

 guage, so that still the radices shall stand in each row directly 

 under the word at the top of the table, which denotes the sig- 

 nificancy of the roots. In this way, then, the roots themselves 

 will be arranged beneath one another in perpendicular columns, 

 thus : — 



From looking at this table, we see at once the necessity of 

 attending, in the analysis, to the affinities of the letters, as p. 

 b.f. &c. as grounded on a natural affinity connected with the 

 organs of speech employed to give them utterance. In this 

 view, then, it is well to be acquainted with the powers of the 

 letters, for example, to keep in mind, that as / is equivalent 

 to phy so V is equivalent to bh, &c. This is most important 

 in anafysing, or even rightly understanding, the Greek tongue, 

 in which we have so many characters, both consonantal and 

 vocalic, which have a compound power. Such is the case of 

 ^> X> ^> vvhich may be considered as the resultants of the 

 combination of their corresponding middle, or tenues, with an 

 aspiration. In like manner, the double letters, as they are 

 called, ?, 4/, may be counted as resultants, | of y, x or % and 

 s ; and -v^ of €", -tt, or (p, and s- ; ^ also as compounded of aJ, 

 or Jc, and rj as a resultant of ga, or, in some instances, of ee ; 

 for example, when it is found as the temporal augment of 



