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hair, to be leen in India; and alfo in China and Japan. — Proof that the Egyptian 



Rehgion, as well as arts, was carried to all the countries of the Eaft as well as to 



" Ihdia.-*-Language alfo carried from Egypt to India, — a language of art, the work of 



''^ience and philofophy, in which analyfis is very much praiftifed. Page 295 



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The Egyptians nuift have had the ufe of a Language of Art before they could have in- 

 vented fo many Arts and Sciences, as it is proved they uid invent. — This Language 

 they muft have invented themfelves, or got from fome other country ; — 110 otlier 

 country but Egypt, where it could have been invented — ^The Phoenicians could not 

 have been the inventors of a Language of Ait, for reafons which are given. — The 

 quefiion is, Whether Ofiris carried 10 India the Langu.ige of Egypt, as well as its 

 other arts ? — It the language of India were a barbarous language, it could not be 

 fuppofed to have come from Egypt. — But the Shanfcrit, the ongmal language of In- 

 dia, a language of the greatcit art. — This proved by the teltunony. of Sir William 

 Jones, and of Brafley Halhed. — It excels in the three great arts of Language, Deriva- 

 tion, Compoution, and Fledtion, and parliculany m the lalL— In tiie pronunciation 

 it has both Melody and Rhythm; — and iis Poetry is formed by Ihorc a. id long fylla- 

 bles : — A ipccimeii of that Poetry given by Bralfey Halhed. — in that fpecimen the 

 words are of grs-at length, and full of vowels — Their alphaoet coiinits of 50 letters. 

 The long and Ihort vowels marked by diflferent characters. — Tlie author learned 

 more of the Shanfcrit language from Mr Wilkins than he has learned any other way. 

 Mr Wilkins has proved by fa£t, what the author thought could only be proved by 

 argument, that the Shanfcrit was the Egyptian language imported into India by OH- 

 ris. — This proved by comparing the Greek with tae Shanfcrit. — General reflections 

 on the tranlmiffion of languages from one country to another, and the changes there- 

 by made in the languages. — And, fiijl, as to the pronunciation. — -That chanoes in 

 the fame nation ; but much more when a language is carried to a different nation 

 and that nation at a great diftance. — idly. As to the fenfe of the words. — This chaiia- 

 ed, too, by the language going to a diitcrent country. — Examples of derivative lan- 

 guages much changed from the original ;— fuch .,s the Itah.m, French, ,j^nd SpajDi^, 

 and the diaieifVs of the Gothic. — Though thelc languages did not travel far, yet {o 

 changed as not to be intelligible, though one underftandb the parent lanouage :— So 

 different alfo from one another, that the underitanding of one will not make you 

 underftand another.— The change niuft have been much greater in the anticnt £g)-p. 

 itian language, when it travelled Hs fc as India, and was introduced among a people 

 ■fo barbarous as the Indj.lns then were — As it is fpoken by the common people there 

 it is not to be known for the Lnngnage of anticnt Egypt, but prcferved among the 



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