Itife'^ChWtes^,' ay<'l!h^'Gi^^ek; 'fehM^igh the dlaifti'bf thia kst 

 has, as far as I can find, found only onie advocate, nam&i 

 ly, "jdhn Erick, a Gefhian prdfessor; whose probft, being 

 chiefly drawn 'frdindfetorted etymologies, were, by •mherte-; 

 treated' 'ti^tH'th^iitmci^tfcontempt* . ■ '- ''^^''^ ,.■,,;. ..^i 

 ... : )j ,, . ^y,;i) . i.'wjif J. j : : -oicfrsiG vnis Ji/orlJiw 



-i-2iirai adt ,9urt;)ij gnibafiia-iobii , '(_i!ni ayanoe 



", jiii;-)aibofn bm; ; rrtrp' 'wTi'^k-RVAV'^^''* '*^"i-''^ noiJ^ii 

 fidisdiBuio^ iioiihfHmjilCT^ie^jnH auHf.emi oldrgivni rrit 'io 



•The '^i«s'f 'aMliiftftJv^' ^clki^^tef''«F'th6.>^ltflfevW l^ngti&ge, 

 ndiftely,'the niost rtd1:ural designation 6f the relations of 

 nouns, is not fdiind' in 'the -Hebrew. Ut. Wilson, ih his 

 Hebrew Graliitaar,t t^hfe best and ^aii^fet I h^vese^n,)" tells 

 li^;'" tliat wicfe attehtiOtt ib the chaiiges of tertliiftatioh, so 

 '^•' reqiiisife 1h afcq{ii'rin^''l!hfe knowledge of other ancient 

 " language^, has her^ no existence; the relations and de- 

 « pendencies of nouns, are not distinguished by termina- 

 « tiohs of cases, but fiy particles or prepOsitimis prefiied." 

 Th^e, it i^'true, kre'al^o incorporated With *&■ word, but 

 not'onl'y thdy''a:rd '^enx^rAl, but they ihdicate the relation 

 in the most clumsy manner; for it is oft^h ditficult tO dis- 

 tinguish, whether they form the radical. Or only deno-te its 

 relation. Which, Mr. Wilson kcktioAVledges,.^iS;Very apt to 

 pei-plex the learner, '" as he ihtist strip' 'tlie noun of these 

 " signs, before th^ primitive form can 'appear." ' 



+ 



The 



* -See Michaeler, ds Oiigine Lingua; piimaria, p. 300. 

 t P. 103. 



J P. lie. 



