158 Mr. Harvey's Obfervations 
Now fuppofing, that all the thirteen vowels and 
variations were ufed in each of the above alpha- 
bets, yet {till the Englifh would preferve the balance 
of variety. And from thofe fimple founds are 
formed all the double founding confonants of the 
languages enumerated; fingle characters having 
been ufed by way of abbreviating compound founds.* 
** Quum enim invente fint litere fimplicibus fonis 
‘* fignificandis, neceffe eft profecto in omni lingua, 
** ut quidem commode feribi poflit, totidem omnino 
“* Iiteras extare, quot funt eus font fimplices.  Alio- 
oa quin five plures five pauciores fuerint, et fcrip- 
** tioni et pronunciationi magnas tenebras offundi neceffe 
** fuerit. Idque folicite Grecos obfervaffe, vel hoc 
** unum fatis oftendit. quod inter Elenchos Aris- 
** toteles nullam ex literis fallacem conclufionem 
numerat: quum nihil poffit frequentius occur- 
rere, fiuni litere dupiicem fonum, vel contra uni fono 
duas literas tribueris, 
‘* Simplices igitur Grace linguz fonos fexdecim, 
totidémque neceffarias literas effe, ex eo apparet, 
quod ex reliquis octo qui totidem literis feri- 
** buntur, 
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* Perhaps there are more fimple founds attributed 
above to the Greek than really belong to it: for the Z 
was formed, it is believed, of ps, and is rather to be 
compared to the Hebrew ¥ or German rz, than to the 
-}, which, in the Englifh, and when fingle, in other 
modern languages, is certainly a fimple found, differing 
from s. The fimple founds of the Greek were anciently 
accounted only fixteen, including five vowels. 
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