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Reflections On the Nature And Property of Languages in General, And On the Advantages, Defects ...
Thomas Stackhouse
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I except not th^ f/ebrew, how obfciue Ibever it be in the only Book, which we have remain^^ ing in that Te)«m j beeaul'e that obfcurity comes from a particiuijur Order of the Providence of Cod> and not from the Nature ot the Toi^t^.
Mbrevf was as dear to thofe that fjpoke it then^ jLS the French is to us. For if it i^ad been ob^ fcure in common ufagei How cotild the Hebrtws have form'd any Society, or kept up aCpramerce together? k would have been a very plesilant thmg indeed for one Bebr^ to h
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Iig*dto ftudy the l4:tngud^€ of another^ xx\ order to capacitate himfelf to comprehend the other^s jneaninj. What Converfation, What Commerce is there amongd Men, that only fpeak tp one another in Enigmas, and in doubtml and equi^ vocal T^rms ?
It we except the Books of the Scripture, and the Authors ^that wrote them, and who were direAed bv a particular Inlplratbn firpm Jtieavcn^ to write them in the manner they did^ there is no one, we may iay humanely (peaking |hat; Wnbe^ and foHow the lights of ^atur^ and Ae^ fon in fo doing, but who ^xp^efs d^nCdv^ with all imaginable F^ripicviity* J^s naturally qq bpdy ipeaks, hut to niake nisiielf upd^iiTpod to thofe that ar^ prefbnt \ fo natumDy no bqdyt yii^^ \m to nu^k^ himfelf und^rftood to thof^ 71 ^ Treatije that are remote by diftanc^ of Place, or that may be fo, by diftance of Time : It would be the greateft folly to Ipeak or write in fuch a manner, as not to be underftood i and a Man, in fuch a Cafe, wou'd deferve neither to be heard or read.


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