Critique as of Grammar, that it recommends its: felf 'prim*. 
Bacit to the niceft Palate, and fufficierftJy provides it felt 
againft difingenuous Cavillers. His Harmonicon in Larin, 
Britifh and lrifh is a Noble Promptuarium of all the Britifh 
Dialers 3 a Work of much Labour and Judgment, and 
which cannot but be acceptable to the Curious in Foreign 
Countries, It were indeed to be vvilh’d the whole were 
tranflated into Latin 3 Scholars abroad having generally 
a greater Curiofity this way than as yet we feem to have 
in England. Father Julian ManoiPs Armoric Grammar 
is a valuable Curiofity, and iiluftrafes the Work 3 It ha- 
ving fcarce been ever heard of in our Country 3 and the 
Armoric Dictionary added to it, fupplies in a great mea- 
fure the defect of the t'ornijh one promifed in the next 
Volume. In the Cornijh Grammar our Judicious Author 
fee ms to excel himfelf. You have there the Hiftory of 
our Britifh Alphabets nicely and accurately handled, with 
a very Curious and Diverting variety of things. You have 
alfo a confiderable Supplement to Dr Davies's Learned 
Didionary- He has infinitely obliged the Ancient Britans 
of Cprnwal by preferving their Language to Pofterity, 
when juft expiring. I cannot omit faying thus much of 
that Noble Dialed of the Britifh 3 that it appears as ca- 
pable of Artful Management and Grammar Rules, as the 
moft refined Languages : Indeed the Celtic Tongues in 
general feem to have been very Anciently refined, and I 
queftion not the truth of what is hinted in that incompa- 
rable Letter of our Author to the Lord Bifliop of Hereford, 
that they were the very Ground-work of Greek and Latin 
Grammars 3 not only the Cantabrian or Scotic part of our 
lrifh, but even the Noble Teutonic Dialeds themfelves fo 
Learnedly recommended by the incomparable Dr Hicks 
in his late Thefanrus , feeming but defedive if compar’d 
as to Art and Variety with our Britifh. The Learned 
World will therefore the lefs wonder if Favher Molloy 
was able to perform fo little of the Grammarian s pare 
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