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for the Abftract and the concrete Signification , and for 
divers Metaphorical ; if atJeaft the Interpretation I have 
met with in the Books I have perufed be exact: Partly, 
alfo from the Syntaxis of them^ it being neceffary to con- 
fider the whole Sentence to Difcover which Part of 
Speech each Character is of, in that Sentence^ Vv^herein the 
'order and pofitions of the Characters to one another, f)r 
which they have Rules, hath its Signification: And laftly, 
from the lofs- of the very Notion of a Literal Character , 
whence for the Expreffing of Proper Names, they are fain 
to make ufe of feveral Characters, whole fonuds or words 
come neareft ta the founds of the Syjlables of that Name, 
as in the Plate tam^joj vm. for Adam* "Jovan 
Now, though I conceive this Gharader is not Eitable 
properly as a Literal Character by any of their prefent Lan« 
guages. And though poifibly it might be at firft a Real 
Character, that is each of them compounded of filch ftrokes 
or marks as by their Figures Pofitions and Numbers in the 
Square, denoted the feveral Philofophical Ingredients, that 
made up the Notion of the whole Character, as the book 
Te Kjm ieems to (hew by giving Rules as I conceive for the 
Order and Significancy of places in the Square, c^^r. Yet I think 
it not difficult to make it a Litteral or at ieaft a Syllabical 
Character, and Legible into a Language fomewhat after the 
manner of the Univerfal Character I mentionM before. And 
tho** this would not be the Primitive Language for which it 
was made, yet for the prefent ufes of it / the chiefeft of 
which is theaffifting and refrefhing the memory ,and helping 
the imagination by proper fbutids ) it might be as good : 
wherein the fingle Characters might be Monofyllables and 
the compounded difyllables triffyllabies, &o. According to 
the Number and Order of Simple Characters in the Square 
of the Compounded. And I am apt to think that the pre- 
fent pronounciation of Languages, ?iSO? Hebrew Syr lack 
rdick Greek and Ltitm or any other Language that has been 
