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in his Celtic Diftionary, maintrun, that there wns a'j^nrninve Language, from whick 

 . all the other Languages on earth are derived — ^That fuch a Language did exift, M. 

 ; Gebelin has proved, by coniparing'the ferveral Languages iitl the world with one ano- 

 ttier,»— the European, Afiatie,"S!id Ameftcan, Languages compared together by hfrn. 

 — America peopled from the north eafl parts of Afia. — A curious fa<St related of a 

 fingular cuftom of the Egyptians which the Americans have adopted. — The method 

 which M. Gebelin has folltiwcd in making this comparifon, very proper, by findmg 

 out the radical words in the feveral Languages. — Of the difference of found oit deri- 

 vative words from their radicals in the fame^ Language; but this difference^'much 

 greater in different dialefts of that Language. — An exaft account, digefted into 

 tables, given by Gebelin, of the changes of derivative words from the original. — 

 The Gitange of vowels in the derivative LanatiagesVhbt'fb grea^'aS "of cbnlonants : — 

 TJae reafon for this. — But confonants alfo ctianged.^ — This' iiiafees' the difference fo 

 great betwixt the original and derivative Langn^ges.-^Of the rnoriofyllables of the 

 Chincfe Language ; many of them to be found in other Languages, and particularly 

 in. tl\e^Coptic.-^Thus proved, that there was a time when there was only brit lian- 

 guage on the face of the earth. — The author, before he read M. Gebelin, was of a- 

 nother opinion. — What that Language w^s W. Gebelin has not determined. — All the 

 Laiiguages of Europe, he fays, are derived from the Celtic — But the Celts did not 

 invent, theijr Laiigiiage, nor the Goths theirs.^T>-The Gothic a more perfe(St Language 

 in fome refp;(Et than the Latin. — Any nation ipeasing a language of art, only proves 

 that the original Language came to them in greater pcrfeftioii than to other nations. 

 — The rejembiancc betwixt the Celtic and other Languages, no proof that thefc 

 Languages are derived from the Celtic. — The Greek Language was certainly not de- 

 rived from the, Celtic, but came directly from E^ypi. — If the Greeks did not invent 

 their Language, bow can we fuppofe that tht Celts or Goths did. — The progrels of 

 the formation of the Language of art, in Eg7pt, muft nave begun, with words of one 

 fyllable. — In that way the Chinefe monofyliabic Language is to be accounted foi. — 

 Thefe monofyllabicdl words were the roots of the primitive Language. — A great 

 queftion. By what rule, or whether by any rule, theie roots were formed } — The 

 letters, according to M. Gebelin, are to be contjdered as a kind of roots. — The Au- 

 thors opinion in this matter : — Nothing, even among men, done without fome rea» 

 fon. — Many words formed from the found. — Even ideas maybe exprefTed by a found, 

 which is fuppoled to have fome analogy to ihem. — The Shanlcrit, according to Fa- 

 ther Pons, a moft wonderful piece of art aud fcience. — It analyfes the particular 

 ideas, expreffed by the words, into the general ideas from whicli they arife. — Thefe 

 exprefTed by raouofyllables, which are the roots of the Language. — Monofyllablcs 

 being the fimpleft words are the fitteft for Derivation and Compofition. — From thefc 

 z-oots, in long order and with gre.it variety, are deduced, according to fixed and de- 

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