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4. Of the Breath of Man, its quality , and its ncceffityfor the formin'* 
of the Voyce, W here he (Lews, How by fnfpiring, the Breath is dffiributed 
through the Lungs (the nature of which he alfo describes-) and how the fame 
circulates through the whole Body. 
5. Of the A nimafioft of the Voyce of Man by his Mafculine and Generative 
power. Where he difeourfes of the difficulty, found in little Children s to pro- 
nounce certain Letters -and alfo oftheWeaknefsof the Voyce in Children 
and Eunuchs. So much-of the fir ft fart. 
The fecond part, in one Dialogue, gives an account. How the Motions and 
Configurations of the Mouth, and the Framing of the Voyce are reprefented 
in the Hebrew Alphabet (for, to this Tongue the Author confines himfelf • 
but with what reafon,the Intelligent Reader of the Book it felfmay judge : j 
explaining the Sound oizzch. Letter, the Motion of the Tongue accompany, 
ing the Sound, and the Figure of the Letter, refulting from thence • together 
with each Letters name, fignification, and aptitude to form the next follow- 
ing Letter. Which done, he proceeds to fhew, how the Vowels are formed 
by the different Openings of the Mouth and Teeth ; fo that to every Vowel 
belongs a peculiar dimenfion of Widenefs in the Mouth : And according to 
thefihape of the outward Mouth, the Tongue and Breath are conformably 
moved within. To wifi ch are added the Names of the Voxels, and their Fi- 
gures ^ their abfence in moif ancient Writings, and the feveral places in the 
Mouth for their formation. All which is concluded partly with a deduction 
of the Caufe, why the Hebrew Tongue is written from the Right hand to the 
Left? partly, with an Explanation of the method ufed to compofe out of 
fuch Letters and Language a Grammar ,vU. by comparing the Confonants 
with one another, and the MnteAaswell with one another as with the Confo- 
nants j forafmuch as the nature of one being well confidered with tefpecT to 
the other, *tis not difficult to judge, how they agree or difagree together .* 
Whence Rules may be formed, how and why this or that Letter or Vowei 
is to be changed into another, &c. 
The Thirdywt treateth of'the perfection of the Hebrew Tongue • where- 
in it confifts, and how highly Tis to be valued. To which is fubjoyned firft 2 
Difquifition ofreafon, why the Radical Words in the Hebrew Tongue can 
confift of no more but three Confonants ? Secondly , a Difcourfe touching 
the Hebrew Accents , (hewing, that’tis a New Invention, and that the An- 
cient Art of Mufichhe ing loft, and confequently to us unknown, the Mo- 
dern Hebrew Accents cannot reafonably be faid to have been the Muftcal 
Notes of the Ancients ; fince efpeciaily all forts of Hebrew^ Books, and even 
their Chapters are marked therewith : though the Author acknowledges., 
that their newnefs deprives them not -of the advantage of being ufeful: 
la the £ A V 0 T, 
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