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That changes in the fame vat'ion; but much more ivhen a language is 

 carried to a different nation^ and that nation at a great difiance. — 

 2dly, As to the fefifc of the words. — This changed, too, by the lan- 

 guage going to a different country. — Examples of derivative lan- 

 guages much changed from the original ; — fuch as the Italian, 

 French, and Spanifh, and the dialcBs of the Gothic. — Though thcfe 

 languages did not travel far, yet fo changed as not to be ititcUigible, 

 though one undcrflands the parent language :— So different alfo front 

 one another, that the underflanding of one will not make you tindcr- 

 ffand another. — The change mnfl have been much greater in the 

 antient Egyptian language, when it travelled as far as India, and 

 ivas introduced among a people fo barbarous as the Indians then 

 'were. — As it is fpoken by the common people there, it is not to be 

 known for the language of antient Egypt, but preferved among the 

 Bramins. — Another obfcrvation upon the paffage of language from 

 one country to another. — The pronunciation mufi be very tnucb 

 changed, particularly of the vowels; — alfo of the confonants. — Words 

 of the fame found do not prove two languages to be the fame,--' 

 not even if they be of the fame fenfe likewife, unlcfs there be many 

 of them, or ivords that mujl have been original in all languages. — 

 A conformity betwixt tivo languages in the three great arts vf lan- 

 guage, Compofition, Derivation, and Flection, the furefi proof of 

 their being originally the fame language. — The names of nwubers, 

 and of members of the human body, and of relations^ mufl be original 

 ivords in all languages. — ift, Of the names of numbers. — Thtfe in 

 Shanfcrit the fame as in Greek and Latin. — Some anomalies in th.fe 

 numbers of the Shanfcrit, and the fame in Greek and Latin. — The 

 names 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. — Inflances of that. — A difference 

 in the found of the words in Shanfcrit, ajid in Greek, and Latin. 



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