lb long written, may be as much differing from what it was 
2000 Years fince, as an Arbitrary one now invented, and 
grounded on the Letters, might poffibiy be. And fuch an 
Arbitrary pronounciation if generally agreed upon might 
fervc Js mil for a help to learn the Signification of words, 
or Word Comhimtions of Characters, as if we now knew the 
exact Primitive Pronounciations, as Critically as theM^y^?- 
reth^ are laid to have done that of the Hebrew; and pollibly 
alfo Much Better^ for that by iiich a one a great many Irre- 
gularities and Difficulties of Pronounciation (which are to 
be found in all Languages now fpoken ) might be omitted, 
and the whole made exactly Regular and eafy, as might be 
fbown in the Hebrew and Greek, and efpecially * i the Ara- 
hick^ whofe difficulties are fufficiently manifeft^d by ^//?/?^- 
betum Jrahicum, Printed at Rome 1 592. Now as by fuch a 
Language the Character might be made Effable without 
Mufical Tones or Difficult Afpirations, fo had we Dictiona- 
ry s of the Signification of the Characters, we might as fopn 
learn the Chinefe Character, as we can Latine^ or any other 
Language to be Learnt by Book, and not by Speaking. 
IMPRIMATUR, 
John Hoskyns Vice P. R. S. 
July 17 th 1^85. 
Printed by J. Streater^ and are to be fold by Sam. Smith 
at the Sign of the Primes's Arms inSt .PmPs Church yard. 
