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cow-pox, BO long will that practice deserve the confidence 

 of the public. 



We beg pardon of Dr. Baron for having lost sight of him 

 80 long. After what has been said, we need not occupy- 

 much time in assuring him of the high regard in which we 

 hold his contribution to the literature of the day. 



Illustrations of the Elementary Principles of the Structure of 

 Language. 

 [By a Friend of the Editor*.] 



The following remarks refer, primarily, to the Elementary 

 Principles of the Structure of the Hebrew Language ; but, as 

 this is the most simple of tongues, as it is the primitive stock 

 from which other languages have sprung, it is evident that all 

 investigations respecting the first principles of the structure of 

 language must be founded upon an analysis of the composition 

 of that original fountain whence language in general is derived. 

 And it will be found, that the elementary principles which regu- 

 late the structure of the Hebrew language, form the basis also of 

 other languages, and furnish us with the key to etymology in 

 general. 



Vocabularies and dictionaries of the Hebrew language pre- 

 sent a list of about two thousand primitive words which are 

 called roofsy from which the other words in the language are 

 constructed. Each of these j^rimitives or roots , is composed of 

 two or three letters only, or, in other words, is either a biliteraly 

 or a triliteral ; and each of these is usually regarded as an 

 arbitrary word, arbitrarily constructed, and endowed with an 

 arbitrary import. But it appears, even on the first view of the 

 subject, highly improbable, that so many biliterals and trili- 

 terals should be mere arbitrary combinations of letters ; such 

 simplicity of structure seems to argue the existence of some con- 

 nexion between the structure of each root, and its applied import 

 — a connexion between the assigned import of each word, and 

 the symbolical or ideal import of the letters which compose it. 



* This Paper contains the outline of a communication which was read 

 before the Members of the Royal Institution, on Friday evening, the 

 second of March, 1827. 



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