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hath its fignification : And laflly, from the lots 

 bf the very Notion of a literal Character, 

 whence for the exprefling of proper Names, 

 they are fein to make ufe of feveral Charafters, 

 whofe Sounds or Words come aeareft to the 

 Sounds of the Syllables of that Name, as in 

 the Plate tarn, joj van^ for Adam. Jova?7. 



Now, though I conceive this Charader is 

 not effable properly as a literal Charader by 

 any of their prefent Languages : And though 

 poflibly it might be at firft a real Charafter, 

 that is each of them compounded of fuch 

 Strokes or Marks as by their Figures, Pofiti- 

 ons and Numbers in the ^quare, denoted the 

 feveral Philolbphical Ingredients, that made 

 up the Notion of the whole Charafter, as the 

 Book Te-Kim feems to (hew by giving Rules as 

 I conceive for the Order and Significancy of 

 places in the Square, &c. Yet I think it not 

 difficult to make it a Literal, or at leaft a Syllabi* 

 cal Charader,and legible into aLanguage fome- 

 what after the manner of the Univerfal Chara- 

 der I mentioned before. And tho' this would 

 not be the primitive Language for which it was 

 made,yet for the prefent ufesof it (the chiefeft 

 of which is the affifting and refrefhingthe Me- 

 mory, and helping the Imagination by proper 

 Sounds) it might be as good: Wherein the 

 lingle Charaders might be Monafyllables and 

 the compounded DilTylables, Triflyllables,c^c; 

 According to the Numbers and Order of fim- 

 ple Charaders in the fquareof the Compound- 

 ed. And I am apt to think that the prefent 

 pronunciation of Languages, as of Hebrew ^Sy- 

 rUcky Arabick^ Greekjirx^ Latin^ or any other 



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