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ESSAY TENDING to IMPROVE 



tions, may be found under the fame number in the Dic- 

 tionary of each nation. This language would be the 

 cleareft and leaft equivocal of all others, and fhould man- 

 kind be able univerfally to underftand each other, they 

 would doubtleis be difpofed to promote each other's hap- 

 pincfs. 



1 believe all Europe makes ufe of the fame figures, and 

 at any rate they would be fooner learnt than a language. 



1 will extend thefe ideas if they are found to be new 

 and ufeful, which, according to Mr. Voltaire, is the 

 only excufe an author can have for making a book. 



N. B. This little Effay made this year 1786, is only 

 an extradt from a more ample work begun in 1781. 



Examples referred to in the foregoing Effay. 



Ex. F 



