2^% MifcettaneA Curiofa. Vol. Ill, 



Language that has been fo long Written, may 

 be as much differing from what it was 2000 

 . Years fince, as an Arbitrary one now invent- 

 ed, and grounded on the Letters, might pof- 

 libly be. And fuch an arbitrary Pronuncia* 

 tion if generally agreed upon might ferve 

 0,5 well for a help to learn the fignification of 

 Words, or Word Combinations of Charafters^ 

 as if we now knew the exadl primitive Pro- 

 nunciations, as critically ^s thc Maforetha arc 

 faid to have done that of the Hebrew ^ and 

 poffibly alfo a tntich better^ for that by fuch a 

 one a great many irregularities and difficulties 

 of Pronunciation (which are to be found in 

 all Languages now fpoken) might be omitted, 

 and the whole made exadly regular and eafie, 

 as might be fhewn in the Hebrew and Greeks 

 and efpecially in the jirakicks, whofe difficul- 

 ties are Efficiently manifefted by Alfhabetum 

 Jlrabicumj Printed at Rome 1 592. Now as by 

 fuch a l^anguage the Charafter might be mad^ 

 effable without MuficalTones or difficultAfpir. 

 rations,fb had we Diftionaries of the fignificar 

 tion of the Charafters, we might as foon leanj 

 the Chine fe Charafters, as we caaX4^/w,or any 

 other Language to be learn'd by Book, and 

 not by fpeaking. 



IMPRIMATUR, 



John Hoslyns Vice F. R. 



