148 Mr, Harvey's Obfervations 
In another place, the fame learned author obferves = 
* That all the works both of nature and of art are’ 
** compounds, which the fenfe prefents to the mind : 
“'thefe it is. the bufinefs of fcience to analyze 
“and refolve into their firft principles, or con- 
* ftituent parts. The analyfis of Language into its 
“ elemental founds was no doubt a work, and. 
«© a work of great art; and after that’ it was an 
“ ingenious thought to think of noting thofe ele- 
mental founds by vifible marks, and of {peaking 
“ in that way to the eyes. Language is fo commonly 
“-ufed, and of fuch facility in practice, that men 
“‘ who have’ not ftudied the art are apt to think 
‘¢ that there is no art in it: on the other hand, men 
‘* of curiofity, who are not fatisfied with the pradtice, 
‘t but want to know the reafon of things, find great 
«« difficulty in explaining the nature of language, 
“ and giving a tational account even of the common 
« parts of fpeech and of their various ufes. But 
‘¢ there is one fatisfaction from the ftudy of the 
** works of art, and which to the lover of know-. 
* ledge 
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“ and cacodemons, I neither have, nor ever will 
“ have any regard for them.” 
¢ The man abhors grammarians ; and grammars, I fuppofe. 
¢ But who is the author of this bit of Greek? An extra- 
‘ ordinary perfon, I afflure you ; a projector, a vifionnaice, a 
‘ linguift by infpiration, a crack, a conjurer—in_ fhort 
‘ Apollonius Tyanenfis. He is the man; and the gram- 
‘ marians account it no difgrace to be vilified by a mounte— 
* bank.’ Jortin’s Life of Erafmus, Note, page 604. 
‘ Vid, Apollon, Epift, prim, p, 385. Philoftrat, Edit. Olear,’ 
