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11 Aug. 1814 Ch.1 + Logic 1
11 Aug. 1814 Ch.1 +

Logic

1

Language

Ch. 1. Operations

'.1. Operations, their precedence

- its limitations

Ch.

Of Discourse or Language in general - Operations which in its character of an art are performable in relation to it.- Qualities which in every language are desirable in it.

'.1. Operations performable in relation to discourse or Language considered in its character of an art - learning - practising - teaching - improving.

In speaking of art in general a mention has been already made of the several operations performable in relation to it: viz. teaching, learning, employing, and improving, and of the order of priority which seems to have been planted as it were by the hand of Nature, as between those several operations: warning has at the same time been given of the limitations necessary to be applied to all propositions connative[?] of that order {of precedence} and of the practical ill consequences that have never ceased to result from the want of due attention to the propriety of these limitations - to the considerations which call for the observance of those limitations - to the practical mischiefs which have been the result of the non-application of these limitations.

Applying to art in general these same instructions would be found applicable with indisputable propriety to that master art, the art of discoursing, of which the product [is] discourse itself or language. The art itself - the fruit or produce of it - the instrument of it - of this as of every other art, of eveything that bears the name of art - in all these distinguishable howsoever intimately connected senses are both these words - discourse and language wont to be applied.

 Quære whether to pursue the enquiry further under this head. Refer to Ch.│ │ Of Art in general.
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