1798-] 
Re, to mean over or paft a given point, 
as in Reverfe, and the like. 
Left this article fhould run too long, 
I muft conclude with barely enumerating 
a few particulars more, which may be 
enlarged upon at a future opportunity 
All the fimple founds are referved to 
convey general or abftraét ideas, and not 
particular things. Oe 
The primary compounds, exprefs the 
moft general of particular things. | 
The combination of feveral founds, cr 
long words, exprefs the more complex 
idpasin i403 
Such a regular fyitem of fpeech feems 
to prove, that man originally made ufe 
of only fimple founds to convey ideas: or— 
That the mind, without communica- 
tion, conceived it in its more complex 
form: or— : 
That language was imparted to the 
firft man, perfeétly conftruéted. 
A very great number of compound 
words, refolvable to their primitives in 
the /Vel//o, run through many languages. 
There are in the Wel//b, words per- 
fectly fimilar in found to the miibolog ic 
names of the ancient world, anfwering 
exactly to moft of the explanations given 
by Gebelin and Bryant. 
It woyld be difficuit to adduce a fingle 
article, or form of conftrué¢tion in the 
Hebrew Grammar, but the fame is to be 
found in Wel/fh; and there are many 
whole fentences in both languages exaétly 
the fame in the very words. 
The Irifoand We are fundamentally 
the fame, but differing much in dialeé 
and pronunciation. 
The Sclavonic, Breton, and Wel/p are 
ene language, with but little variation of 
dialeét; which I conceive to. be an im- 
portant difcovery. 
The Sc/avons and Welb being feparate 
people from a very remote period, mili- 
tates greatly againft the common notion 
of the inftability of language. 
There is not the leaf difference be- 
tween the language of the Laws of Mowel 
in the tenth, or Geoffrey of Monmouth’s 
Hf fory in the twelfth century, and that 
now fpoken in Wales. 
Some may be apt to condemn the 
above as rather vifignary; but if any 
fhould be inclined to point out what 
feems improbable,. perhaps I may be 
able to bring forward many extraordi- 
nary proofs in fuppgrt af what is ad- 
vangedsen nih oh Ba 
e-qur’s, Bec. 
Avguft t. MEIRION. 
German Anecdotes. 543 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, : 
{7 will, with diihculty, be believed, 
that Berlin, the chief city of the late 
king of Pruffia, fhould afford any proofs 
of {..,erftition or fanaticifm yet an in- 
ftance very lately occurred, which has 
occafioned the refignation of Mr. Brum- _ 
bey, a preacher; and an order to abitain 
from the future exercife of his cffice as 
preacher or teacher. The circumftance 
which gave rife to it, is thus related : 
Richter and Schulz, the two colleagues 
of Brumbey, very generally admired 
preachers, except by the fcllowers of 
Brumbey, not approving the old pfalm 
at the communion, 
“¢ May God be praifed and bleffed, 
“© Who hath himfelf fed us, 
“© With his fleih, and with his blood,”® 
gave out the verfe, 
‘ I thank thee, from my heart, O Jefus !’” 
Brumbey and his followers were very 
indignant at this change, and accufed the 
preachers of aétually denying the god- 
head of Chrift. Complete confulicn 
took place in the church: Brumbey’s 
party {creamed and fhouted out their 
beloved pfalm, and were on the point of 
attacking Richter at the altar; and a 
fanatical fhoemaker was taken into cuf- 
tody by the police. Brumbey, in his 
fermon, explained the communion text, 
and taught his audience, that it was not 
human blood, which they fed on at the 
altar, but the real blood of the Father, 
Son, and Holy Ghoft: he then wrote 
tothe king ; from whom, (as, according 
to his account, his two colleagues, and 
all the Berlin preachers denied the divi- 
nity of Chrift,) he begged his difcharve. 
In confequence of this letter, a confifto- 
rial enquiry took place; of which the 
refult was as above ftated, and the po- 
lice was particularly ordered to take 
care, that this very orthodox preacher 
fhould not hold any conventicles. A new 
preacher is alfo to be appointed by the 
magiftracy. 
As a contraft to the anecdote recited 
above from Berlin, an inftance of tolera- 
tion, which has occurred at Spree, de- 
ferves to be recorded. In confequence 
of the deftruction of the Lutheran 
church, the Calvinifts have indulged the 
Lutherans with the ufe of their own 
church. Thetwo feé&ts now affemble, 
with their refpective preachers, at dif- 
ferent hours, in the fame church. On 
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