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Reafons for the Author' inftjling fo much upon the difficulty of the in- 

 vention of the Art of Language. — One reafon is, that it tends to 

 prove, that Language muji have been invented in Egypt, ivhere 

 fo many other arts were invented. — Proved, imo, That Language 

 was invented by the Egyptians, by the progrefs they made in other 

 arts and in fciences, which could not have been without Language. 

 — 2dly, Articulation could not have been invented without the alTif- 

 tance of tbofe Damon Kings, whom the Egyptians had. — 7tio We 

 are fure that the Egyptians made the firjl Jlep in the invention of 

 an art of Language, by analyfing it into its elemental founds.— They 

 did tiot fop at that analyfis, but likewife analyfed the words into 



the parts of fpeech. — But thefe words at frf monofyllabical. /// 



this fate Language went to China, where it remains unimproved, 

 in its original fate. — Hieroglyphics went there alfo; — and there they 

 are fill preferved. — In Egypt the art was pcrfeded by the inven- 

 tion of the Alphabet, and of a Pdyfylldbical Language, formed by 

 Derivation, Compoftion, and Flection. — This compleated the Gram- 

 matical Art, and the Art of Language. — The Phanicians the only 

 people that can contend with the Egyptians for the invention of Lan- 

 guage. — Sundry reafons given why they were not the inventors of 

 it. — I mo, Their Genius did not lead them that way, being whol- 

 ly employed in Trade, and fudious only of Gain. — adly, They had 

 no Polity ft for the invention or cultivation of arts. — --tio, Thev 

 lived, in a?itient times, in the neighbourhood of the Egyptians, and 

 fo may be fuppoftd to have got Language and other arts from them. 

 — 4to, They had thtir Religion from Egypt. —This proved by fin- 

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