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Would he then exprefs thefe eight verfes, in Roman 

 chara&ers, exactly as the French themfelves in facl ex- 

 prefs them ; or would he decorate his compofition with 

 a paflage more refembling the dialect of favages, than 

 that of a polifhed nation ? His pronunciation, good 

 or bad, would, perhaps, be thus reprefented : 



' Law more aw day reegyewrs aw nool otruh parellyuh, 



' Onne aw bo law preeay : 

 6 Law crooellyuh kellay fuh boofhuh lays orellyuh, 



4 Ay noo layfuh creeay. 



6 Luh povre ong faw cawbawn oo luh chomuh luh 

 4 coovruh, 



4 Ay foozyet aw fay lwaw, 

 4 Ay law gawrduh kee velly 6 bawryayruhdyoo Loovruh, 



6 Nong dayfong paw no rwaw !' 



The fecond fyftem of Afiatick orthography confifts 

 in fcrupuloufly rendering letter for letter, without any 

 particular care to preferve the pronunciation ; and, as 

 long as this mode proceeds by unvaried rules, it feems 

 clearly entitled to the preference. 



For the firft method of writing Perfian words, the 

 warmed advocate, among my acquaintance, was the late 

 Major Davy, a member of our Society, and a man of 

 parts, whom the world loft prematurely, at a time when 

 he was meditating a literary retirement, and hoping to 

 pafs the remainder of his life in domeftick happinefs, 

 and in the cultivation of his very ufeful talents. He 

 valued himfelf particularly on his pronunciation of the 

 Perfian language, and of his new way of exhibiting it 

 in our characters, which he iniiructed the learned and 

 amiable editor of his Injlitutes of Timour, at Oxford, 



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