EDINBURGH:

Printed for J. BALFOUR, Edinburgh; and T. CADELL,
in the Strand, London.

M,DCC,LXXIV.

PART I

BOOK I.

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That Language is not natural to man, proved, first, from the origin and nature of the IDEAS expreffed by Language; and, fecondly, from the nature of ARTICULATION.

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Introduction,

1. Definition of the fubject.-Whether language be from nature, or acquired habit,

2. Of capacities,-powers,-habits,-and faculties in general,

3. Of the powers and faculties of human nature,

4. That man does not by nature form ideas.-Divifion of the conceptions of the mind.-Nature

of ideas,

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5. Of