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22 Jany. 1816 Chrestom or Language
22 Jany. 1816

Chrestom or Language

Ch. 2. Uses of this end

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V. Properties desirable in the matter of which language is susceptible.

This will be determined by, and bear reference to the several preceding topics, viz. 1. Modes or forms; 2. Uses. 3. Operations. 4. Occasions.

Of these properties the following list will it is hoped be found not to want much of being a complete one.

VI. Different degrees in which these several desirable properties are possessed by the principal and best constructed languages in use.

VII. Means by which, in so far as the particular language employed by him admits of the possession of them, these several desirable properties may on each occasion be secured by the individual by whom the matter of language is employed.

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    I. Modes or forms of which discourse or language has been found susceptible, viz. audible, visible, and their respective substitutes.

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    VIII. Explanation of the several parts of speech: i.e. of the different modifications of the matter of language corresponding to the several modifications of thought, as often as to any considerable extent thought comes to be communicated, whatsoever be the subject and the occasion expression requires to be found, and for which signs must in every language be provided, and accordingly whatsoever be the difference between the sign or signs employed for the designation of any given import in this or that language and the sign or signs employed for the designation of that same import in this or that other particular language, are accordingly provided /furnished/.

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