OF ASIATICK WORDS. 5 



tnd each has been recommended by refpe&able autho- 

 rities. The firft profefTes to regard chiefly the pronun- 

 ciation of the words intended to be expreffed ; and this 

 method, as far as it can be purfued, is unqueftionably 

 ufeful : but new founds are very inadequately prefented 

 to a fenfe not formed to receive them ; and the reader 

 muft, in the end, be left to pronounce many letters 

 and fyllables precarioufly ; befides, that by this mode 

 of orthography, all grammatical analogy is deftroyed, 

 fim'ple founds are reprefented by double characters, 

 vowels of one denomination ftand for thofe of another; 

 and poffibly, with all our labour, we perpetuate a pro- 

 vincial or inelegant pronunciation. All thefe objec- 

 tions may be made to the ufual way of writing Ku?n- 

 wterbund, in which neither the letters, nor the true 

 found of them, are preferred; while Kemerbend, or 

 Cemerbend, as an ancient Briton would write it, clearly 

 exhibits both the original characters, and the Perfian 

 pronunciation of them. To fet this point in a ftrong 

 light, we need only fuppofe that the French had adopted 

 a fvftem of letters wholly different from ours, and of 

 which we had no types in our printing-houfes : let us 

 conceive an Englijiiman, acquainted with their language, 

 to be pleafed with Malkerbe's well-known imitation 

 of Horace, and defirous of quoting it in fome piece of 

 criticifm : he would read it thus : 



* La mort a des rigueurs a. nulie autre pareilles : 



8 On a beau la prier : 

 ' La cruelle qu'elle eft fe bouche les oreilles, 



' Et nous laifle crier. 



Le pauvre en fa cabane, ou le chaume le couvre, 

 6 Eft fujet a fes loix, 



Et la garde, qui veille aux barrieres du Louvre, 

 * N'en defend pas nos rois !' 



B 3 Would 



