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Native from hls Childhood attains unto, may, 'to an indif- 
ferent eftimate, be very well difpenfed with. 
Having thus acquainted you with thofe Confiderations 
which did induce me to attempt it 5 lead you may think I 
build too confidently thereuponjand judge me guilty of too 
much vanity, in promifing my felf a greater fuccefs than can, 
in realbttj be hoped for 5 It will next be ne<:eflary to give 
you fome account, what meafure of Succefs I might propofe 
to my felf as probable, in fuch an utidertaking. 
And as to the firft part of it, (that o(spea\ifig'^) Though 
I did believe, that much more is to be effeded than is com- 
monly thought Fefible , and that it was poffible for him Co 
to Ipeak as to be underftood 5 yet I cannot promife my felf, 
that he (hall fpeakfo Accurately, but that a Critical ear 
may eafilydifcern fome Failures^ or little differences from 
the ordinary tone or pronunciation of other men^ ( fince 
that we fee the like every day, when not Forraigners on- 
ly, but thofe of our own Nation in the remoter parts of it, 
can hardly fpeakfo Accurately, as not to dilcovera con- 
fiderable difference from what is the common Dialeftor 
Tone at London.^ And this not onely upon the confidera- 
tion laft mentioned 5 (concerning the Organs of Speech le(s 
pliable to thofe Sounds to which they were not from the 
firfl accuftomed 5) but efpecially upon that other confide- 
ration , concerning the Ears ufefulnels to guide and correft 
the Tongue. For as I doubt nat , but that a Perfon , who 
knows well how to Write, may attain, by cuftome, fuch a 
Dexterity, as to write in the Dark tolerably well 5 yet it 
could not be expeded, thathefhould perform it with the 
like Elegancy, as if he faw the Motions of his hand; fo 
neither is it reafonably to be expected, that he who cannot 
Hear, though he may kuow how to fpeak Truly,ihould yet 
perform it fo Accurately, as if he had the advantage of his 
Ear al(b. 
Nor can I promife, nor indeed hope,that how Accurately 
foever he may learn to fpeak, hefliould be able to make fo 
great Life of it as others do* For fince that he cannot hear, 
what others fay to Him,as weM as cxprefs his own Thoughts 
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