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, Bramins. — Another obfervation upon the pafTage of language from one country tn 

 another. — ^The pronunciation muft oe very much changed, particularly of the vowelsj 

 — alfo of the confonants.— Words of the fame found do not prove two languages to 

 be the fame^—r not^^yep if ^l^ey Jje of the fame fenfe like wife, unlefs there be many 

 of. them, or words that muft have been original in all languages. — A conformity be- 

 twixt two languages in the three great arts of Language, Compofition, Derivation, 



and Fledlion, the fureft proof of their being originally the fame language The 



names of numbers^ and of members of the human body, and of relations, muft be 

 original words in all languages.^- 1;/?, Of the names of numbers. — Thefe in Shanfcrit 

 the fame as in Greek and Latin. — Some anomalies in thefe numbers of the Shanfcrit, 

 and the fame in Greek and Latin. — The namss of the members of the human body 



the fame in Shanfcrit as in Greek and Latin, — alfo the names of Relations ^The 



name of God in Shanfcrit, the fame as in Greek and Latin, — many words of the 

 .Shanfcrit more Latin than Greek. — Inftances of that. — A difference in the found of 

 the words in Shanfcrit, and in Greek, and Latin. — This accounted for, from the 

 great changes in the pronunciation of language. — Of Greek names of places arid ^er- 

 fons in India, when Alexander was there, — thefe names more Greek than the pre- 

 fent Shanfcrit. — The reafon of this. — A great many more Greek words to be collec- 

 ted from the Shanfcrit — Mr Wilkins has given the author about 70 more. — Other 

 words he has got from other travellers in India — Of the refemblance of the two lan- 

 >j guages in the three great arts of Language, Compofition, Derivation, and Fle<flion. 



Examples of compofition in the Shiuifcrit. — One extraordinary compofition, with 



- the J privative, as common in the Shanfcrit as in the Greek — Of derivation in the 

 ^ .Shanfcrit, Mr Wilkins has given the author no example, — but it is ufed in that lan- 

 Mguage as well as compofition and fleftion. — Of fleftion in the Shanfcrit. — ^The gireat 

 variety of this art of language — Verbs in fu in the Shanfcrit as well as in the Greek, 

 a fpecimen of four perfons of the prefent tenfe of the fubftantive verb in the Shan- 

 fcrit, the fame with the Greek and Latin. — ^Mr Wilkins, by comparing the two lan- 

 guages, has proved that in faft the two languages are the fameTj^^has f6t1:1e(3," in fhis 

 way, a fact which was denied by feme ant:ent authon;, that the' ' Egyptians were in 

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T;be Language imported by Ofiris into India is ftill preferved under the name of the 

 ^Shanfcrit. — It is the Sacred Language of India; new underftood only by the Bra- 

 -_jj5i,ns.— 'It is to be prcfumed, that the Language of Egypty^'afe'ifc'W^At'as'-f'ar'is'Isdia, 

 5]went alfo to the neighbouring countries. — Bur, hefides prefuiirtption, there is' proof 

 , fcotn facls. — ^This furniflicd by M. Gebolin in his Monde Primitif. — He, and Bullet 



