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^vlli(•h Is done by lyntax, thty would communicate no meuning to 

 the lieater, becaule they winild only exprels fo many alfFerent things 

 withou'. any connedion with one another. 



And here 1 conclude the fuhjcdl of language, upon which I am 

 afraid the reader will think that 1 have laid too much in this part of 

 my work, after what 1 have iaid in other parts of it, particularly in 

 the volumes that I have written upon the Origin and Progrels of 

 Language. But he (hould confider, that language is not only the 

 moft common art among men, but the moft curious, and of the mod 

 wonderful invention, and, at the fame time, of the greateft ufe ; for 

 without language there could not be that clofe intercourfe of men in 

 civil fociety, by which arts and fciences were invented, and men 

 made that progrefs in this life towards recovering from their fallen 

 ftate, which, as 1 have Ihown, they could not have made except in 

 civil fociety: And he will obferve, that 1 have here Ipoken more of 

 the invention of language, and of the firfl; founds and words ufed by 

 men when they began to fpeak, than any where elfe; and, I think, 

 I have given a better account of the beginning of this wondertul art 

 than is to be found in any other author. 



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