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whether they be fimple or compounded, and 

 made up of fimple CharaAers (though there 

 are fome Inftances of affinity in Charaftcrs 

 and Words.) The reafon of which differing 

 pronunciation I conceive may have proceed- , 

 ed, partly from the Ipfs of the primitive 

 Language, for which it was made , partly 

 from a moft inconvenient affedion of Mona- 

 fyllabical Words in this Court Language, to 

 help the Poverty of which, they are fain to 

 make one Syllable to fignifie many differing 

 Notions, to do which they have introduced a 

 kind of Mufical toning or accenting of each of 

 them, and not fingle but compound of two or 

 three Tones to each fignification of every one 

 of th^fe Monafyllables: Partly from the ufing 

 of this way of Writing, by divers Nations of 

 differing Languages, who minding only the 

 Figure and Signification, read it into their 

 own Mother Tongues, as we in Europe do 

 Arithmetical I{igures : And partly, alfb fron^ 

 theomiffionof moft Grammatical Diftinftions, 

 the fameCharafter ferving for Subftantive and 

 Adjefltive, Singular and Plural, in all Cafes, 

 (fave only they have fome Charaftcrs for Par- 

 ticles, as of and to in Englilh) for the Verb 

 in all Tenfes, and Numbers, &c. for the ab- 

 ftraft and the concrete Signification, and for 

 (divers Metaphorical ; if at leaft the Interpre- 

 tation I have met within the Books I haveper- 

 ufed be exact : Partly , alfo from the Syntaxisoi 

 them, it being neceflary to cqnfider the whole 

 Sentence, to difcover which part of Speech 

 each Charafter is of, in thc^t Sentence, where- 

 in the Order and Pofitions of the Characters 

 tp one another, for which they have Rules, 

 ^ ' " ' ^ hathf 



