Bei/ide: the many Private conference: to thi: purpofe ‚ I muß not Лиз’!

to mention , that Publique account which he hath given to the World, of

hi: thought: upon thi:ЛИК? , in that Learned and [путаю diji‘outfe ßyled Vindiciœ Academiarum 5 wherein he endeavour: to Vindicate Миф Ancient and jamon: School: cf Learning , from ‚дм/э rcproacher, whereby jeme Ig norant and ill-natured men ( taking the advantage у" ММ: had Time: _)

would have expojêd them to contempt and ruine.

In which Treatiß: there

i: mention made offome conßderable preparation: , toward: the Def/gn here

торфа’, which

hi: other need/ary imployment: would have permitted

him to have profëcuted , would without doubt , long ere thi: .‚ have been ad vanced to a: great a Perfeè't'ion , a: the Fßa'y infb dificil/t a matter could

have attained. ' ~ It wa: fome con/iderable time after thi:, before I had any thought of attempting any thing in thi: kind: The occa lon of it wa: , from a deßre I had , to give firme 'ajßliance to another perjon, who wa: wil/ing to ingage in thi: deßgn of framing a real Charafter, from the Natural no tionof thing:5 for the helping Qf whom in ji: worthy an undertaking, I did @fer to draw up for him, the Table: of Subltance, or the ßncie: of Natural Bodies ‚ reduced under theirjêveral Неас115 which I did accord ing/y perform, much after the ./iznte Method, a: they are hereafter fit damn: Though in the doing of it , I found much more labour and dißiculty, then I expeâ‘ed, when I undertook it. But he for whom I had done thz`:, not liking thi: method, a: being of too great a Compaß, conceiving that he could füiciently provide for all the chief Radical: , in a much briefer and more ealy way , did not think л? to make аф- of thejë Table:. 'Upon which, being my jelf convinced, That thi: which I had begun, wa: the only courßl for the там; ofßtch a work, and being withal unwiding

to loof: fo much pain: a: I had already taken toward: it, I reßlved ( a: my lea/nre would permit) to go on with the other Table: ofAccidemg, And when after many review: and change: I had reduced f a: wed a: I could) into thqfe Table: , all [imple thing: and пойти, by a Confiderd tion of them à Priori, I then judged it шефа)’ to attempt the redu

Üion of all other Word: in the Diůionary to thiji' Table:, either a: they were Synonymous to them, or to be defined by them, which would be a mean: to try ‘де/Миф of the/ê Table: , and conßquently to ­/upply their defeä:5 And b_eßde: a great help to Learnen, who without дм a direötion, might not perhap: at be able toßnd out the true place and notion tfmany Word:. ­ For the farther compleatiug of thi: Work, I found it шеф’) to take into conßderation, the framing of fach a Natural Grammar, a: might

be ßtitcd to the Philojitphyof Speech, alßraä'ing from thofe many unneceßary rule: belonging to in_/iituted Language, which proved a matter ofno fina/l dijfcnlty , coryïdering the little help to be had fitr it , from thofè few Author: `

who had before undertaken todo any thing in thi: kind. In the doing if theß' thingy, I have not лед/еде‘! any help that I could procure from other:, and midi acknowledge my much ingaged to Ли‘ dry Learned Men of my acquaintance , for their diret‘ït'ion: , andfurtherance

in /uch matten, a: were mijl ßlitable to their jêveral Studie: and Prqßrf Лот. Amongfì the ‘ф, I muß not Лиге! to make particular mention of the рта! :1l/dilation’ I have received, in drawing up tlc Table: of Animals from