Reflections On the Nature And Property of Languages in General, And On the Advantages, Defects ...
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...ave been pb*. 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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