324 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



5. Gaulic. 



And perhaps fome others that may be 

 known to philologists. To thefe may 

 be added, 



26. The different alphabets, idioms, and me- 

 thods of fpeaking and writing in the 

 middle age. 



VI. Philology is therefore employed in ma- 

 king learned reiearches, not only into thefe Ian- 

 guages, but into many others, which we fhall 

 enumerate in the three following chapters. It 

 prefcribes rules, lays down precepts, points out 

 principles, furniflies etymologies, and makes all 

 the necefiary remarks for the underilanding and 

 attainment of every known language. It (hows 

 the ufe that may be made of each particular lan- 

 guage ; in what country, and by what people, it 

 has been fpoken ; and explains, as far as is pof- 

 fible, all the obfcurities and ambiguities that at- 

 tend the ftudy of each language. 



VII. When the alphabet of a language is once 

 difcovered and well undcrftood, we may eafily 

 attain, or at leaft with much lefs difficulty, the 

 knowledge of the reft. Befide numberlefs phi- 

 lological works, with which each library is 

 crowded, we have, in Germany, a fmall treatile 

 that is very curious and very inftructive, intitled, 

 The new A. B. C. in a hundred languages : or ? 

 fundamental inftrudtions for teaching the young- 

 eft fcholars not only German, Latin, French 



and 



