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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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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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