further, in the act of communicating it may enable them to withdraw their minds from worldly objects, and to employ them fervently in the folemn service.

With fuch preparation for the fupper of the Lord, attended with due reverence at the time of receiving it, and with suitable difpofitions after it, we may reasonably hope, that every privilege, benefit, and comfort of Chriftian communion will be fecured to us.

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APPENDIX, (a.)

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appears from the accuracy, with which this TREATISE is executed, and from the fpirit of criticism frequently displayed in it, that the writer confidered a competent knowledge of language as one of the barriers, that ought to be raised against the pernicious opinions of the present times.

The following paffages, felected from it, place him in a favourable point of view as a preceptor, and account in fome measure for the extraordinary fuccefs, with which

his inftruction of the Prince was attended.

-Viz.

Before I proceed to enumerate the FIGURES OF RHETORICK, or to explain and illuftrate them by EXAMPLES, it is proper to give a general view of the principles and rudiments of that useful ART.

Rate T As an art, it adds force and ornament to language, and according to the talents men derive from nature contributes to form the CORRECT SPEAKER, or the EMINENT ORATOR.

LANGUAGE is the means by which we fignify or exprefs our thoughts to one another, and as it is the chief vehicle of knowledge, and our happiness in fociety depends much upon it, its principles and rudiments ought to be carefully inveftigated and explained.

By

By LANGUAGE, taken in a large fenfe, we mean all thofe SIGNS, by which we exprefs and communicate our ideas--thoughts---purposes and defires.---It is called NATURAL, fo far as it confifts of natural figns; and ARTIFICIAL, fo far as it consists of artificial figns.

TONES of the voice, whether modulated, or wild and artlefs, and ACTION of the eyes, or features, or hands, or other parts of the body, whether studied, or unformed and irregular, are the ELEMENTS, of which natural language confists;---and WORDS or articulate and diftinct founds of the voice, to each of which a particular and precife meaning is annexed by common confent and ufage, are the ELEMENTS, or constituent parts, of artificial language.

Human beings, who have no common artificial language, can make mutual communication