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AS new terms are, from time to time, introduced with new. ideas and 
"new. objects, living languages are subject toconstant changes ; and suc- 
_cessive barbarisms,, deriyed from, temporary ,and_ local circumstances, 
render them in some. measure unintelligible to all, besides those to whom 
such circumstances are familiar. It is impossible for a foreigner, by 
~ any knowledge or analogy of ‘language,’to know what we mean in this 
‘country'by Whig, Tory, the! Minister’s Budget; andiso on.» None but 
a Frenchman, or one acquainted ‘with France,: can be supposed to 
~-know that a Swiss means'a porter, or a Savoyard.a chimney-sweep.. Of 
-Hlate years, amidst other changes and novelties in. France, a very consi- 
~*derable dégree: of innovation has. taken place in the French language. 
‘Although, for our own ‘parts}-we: studiously avoid ‘the use of the new 
pliraseology of our neighhours, as/being equally voffensive against puri- 
ty, perspicuity, and dignity of style; yet,..as:this, in some instances, 
may find its way into the papers, to which we give a place in our re- 
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- cord, or to which we may occasionally refer, we thought it not alto- 
_ gether unnecessary to give an. explanation of the following words :— 
The New or Mopvern Puitosoruy. The doctrines of Rousseau, 
Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and others, who, exceeding the zeal as well 
_as-boldness of their sceptical predecessors, have devoted, or continue 
-to devote their lives to the seduction of mankind, into 2 mockery of the 
christian religion, and the adoption of a system of atheism and licenti- 
ousness, As the writers just mentioned outdid, in point of extrava- 
_ gance, the philosophers who had gone before them ; so they themselves 
-were, in their turn, outdone by Condorcet, Brissot, Sieyes, Mr. Paine, 
and a whole herd of other philosophers, who ‘actually attempted to car- 
_ ry the dreams of metaphysicians, on political subjects, into practice. 
“The 'Sraves-GeneRay of | France, assembled at  Versaijles by the 
~vauthority of the King, assurhed thename and the powers of 
Tue Constituent, AssemBty ; or, an Assembly for the purpose of 
forming a new constitution, This was.also called the first National 
Assembly. A. new ‘constitution being formed, and accepted by the 
King 
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