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other Organs of Speech, to the Forming of fuch a Sound as 
I direft* Which if I hit right,! confirm him in it : If he mifs, 
I fignifie to him^in what he differed from my Direftionjand, 
to what Circumftances he muft attend to mend it. By which 
means, with fome Trials, and a little Patience, he learns firft 
one, then another Sound 5 and, by frequent Repetitions,is 
confirmed in it 5 or (if he chance to forget) Recovers it a- 
gain. 
And for this Work , I was fo far prepared before hand, 
that I had heretofore, upon another occafion, (in myTrea* 
tife De Loqnela^ prefixed to my Grammar for the Ettglijh 
Tongue^^ confidered very exadlly (what few Attend to) the 
Accurate Formation of all Sounds in Speaking, (at leaft as 
to our own Language, and rhofe I knew : ) without which, 
it were in vain to fet upon this Tafk^Forjif we do not know, 
or not confider, how we Apply our own Organs in Forming 
thole Sounds we Speak, it is not likely , that we ftiall , this 
way, Teach another* 
As to that of Teaching him the Language: I muft fas Ma- 
thematicians do from a Few Principles firft granted, ) from 
that little ftock (that we have to Begin upon) of fuch Ani- 
ons and Geftures as have a kind of Natural fignificancy , or 
fome Few Signs, which himfelf had before taken up to ex- 
prels his Thoughts as well as he could , Proceed to Teach 
him, what I mean by (bmewhat elfe 5 andfo, by fieps, to 
more and more : And this, fo far as well I can, in fuch Me- 
thod, as that what he Knows already,may be a ftep to what 
he is next to Learn ; as, in Mathematicks, we make ufe, not 
of Principles only, but Proportions already demonftrated» 
in the Demonftration of that which follows. 
It remains now, for the PerfeQing the Account which at 
prefent you defireof me, only to tell you, what Progrefs 
we have already made. Which, had not your Defires com- 
manded from me, I ftiould have refpited a while longer , 
till I might have made it fomewhat Fuller. 
He hath been already with me fomewhat more than Two 
Moneths. hi which time, though I cannot be thought to 
have Finifhed fuch a Work 5 yet the Succefs is not fo little, 
as 
