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partly revealed and partly invented, it is certainly, as I have faid, 

 the inoft wonderful art pra£lifed by men : And of this, I think, we 

 can have no doubt, when we confidcr that, by knguage, our ani- 

 mal cries, which, as I have obferved, go on in one flow, are divid- 

 ed and broken into fo many different founds, as to exprefs all the 

 various things not only of nature, but of art, fo various and fo 

 many, that I believe they never have been numbered. Next, thefc 

 words muft be connected together both by found and fcnfe, in fuch 

 a way as to be comprchenfible in the inemory and readily appre- 

 hended by the underftanding, fo that by pra£iice and habit they may 

 in time become familiar and eafily ufed. And, Inflly, it may be ob- 

 ferved, that in the learned languages, fuch as the Greek and Shanfcrit, 

 (which is the Greek, or rather its original the Egyptian, preferved 

 among the Bramins in Intlia*), the words have not only a moft va- 

 rious and beautiful articulation, but they are adorned both with me- 

 lody and rhythm : So that, in thofe languages, mufic is joined to 

 articulate founds ; and thefe two make language not only the moft 

 ufcful of all arts, but a moft pleafant art, which, while it conveys 

 to the mind all arts and fciences, at the fame time charms the ear. 



♦ See Vol. IV. Book III. Chap. IV. and V. 



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