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Greenlanders, fuppofe they had enjoyed all the other advantages I 

 have mentioned, could have invented a language of art. 



Thefe are the things required for the invention of a language of 

 art, fuch as, I think, it muft be admitted, are not to be found in every 

 nation which has the ufe of language : And the queftion now to 

 be confidered is, whether we can difcover any very antient nation in 

 which all the things I have mentioned concur. And, I think, there 

 is one to be found in which they all concur j and that is the Egyp- 

 tian* 



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