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That each language had great affinity with the ottier ; and in pro- 

 portion as they advanced in refinement, that their poetry was decorated 

 with the rhirae, or correfpondent found. 



That the defcendants of each people Jlill ufe the rhime in the ftruc- 

 ture of their poetry, as they originally had done. 



That the firll: colonization of European Greece was from Egypt. 



That under whatever names their leaders were called, their language was 

 Egyptian, and adopted the rythmus to which it was congenial. 



That the Greeks, and afterward the Romans were the only people, 

 who, by adding quantity and feet, pretended a melioration of their verfe, 

 by abftruding the rhyme, which all the other nations of the earth had 

 found fo natural to language. 



That when the Greek and Roman flates lofl: the power of conquerors, 

 by which alone their languages were either extended or fuftained, the 

 different tongues into which the Greek and Latin were fplit, each as 

 foon as formed, refumed the rhime, that had been continued by gene- 

 ral ufe. 



That although the language of Greece and Rome for fome centu- 

 ries denied the rhime, by adopting quantity, yet no fooner did invading 

 nations deftroy that cuftom, than a return to the ancient rhyme, in 

 their feveral poetries became univerfal, and remains in that priftine 

 ftate. 



That, as poetry was primarily introduced in honour of the religion 

 of the country, no fooner was it reftored, than the Greek and Latin 



languages 



