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from that niet? Learned and [твердые Gentleman , a worthy Member ofthe Royal Society, Mr.’ Francis Willoughby, who hath made it hi: >particular hnßneß, to inquirein after hi: late and Travail: under/initd through thethe fev'eral maß ßvecie: eonfiderahle cy" Animals, part: ofand Europe hy hir own Ohfèrvation: i: ahle to advance that part of Learning , and to add many „Иду, to what hath heen formerly done, hy the maß Learned Author: in thio kind. ‘ ' And a: for tho/ê maß dißicult Table: of Plants, I have received the like дШ/Ътсеэ from one of hi: Companion: in Travail, lllr. уши/ту, Late Feßow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, who hefìde: hi: other general ’ Knowledge, hath with greatjitcceß apply/ed hint/éh" to the Cultivating, of that part of Learning.

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And a:fer theprincipal афиши, which I meg with in any _other part if thir Work, [риф acknowledge myлад‘ahliged to the continual ‚(ф/{миг Ihave

had, from nay ту? Learned and z'rorthy Friend, ‘В’. “ЧШащЫоуд , then whom (/ôfar a: Iam ahle tojndge,) thi: Nation сон/‘1 mit, have ayfatded a'

Лис’ Perfon , either for that great India/fry, ar Accnratejndgment, hath in

Philologìcal, and Philofophical matter: , required to рт!’ a Work. And particularly I ‘пи/Ё wholy a/i‘rihg to hina that tedion: and diyjzicnlt taik, of fitting the Table: to the DiCtionary , and the drawing up of the Diótionnry it felf, which upon Луи, I doni# not, will he found to he the maß petfeä, that _. ' wa: everyet ‘идей’ the Englifh Tongue. ' And here I think it prpaer to give notice that there are Диет! Ward:,/ mentioned in the Diäionary , andfrequently при! among/Z [те 'auf/ar., which areyet very qne/iionahle a: to their тиф andpropriety : Each of thefe­ were in the Original Coppy niarlqed with an Aßerùk, for the hettcr dißinäion afthena’, hut hy fome ovetßght, the/e mark: have heen omitted in the Im

prellion. _fanyßJa/lßiggq/i , that Для: of thi Enquiríe: here infißed upon (a: par ticularly th'tß ahout the Letter: of the Alphahet) do firent too minute and trivial, for any prudent Man to he/low. hi: fèrion: thought: and time a

hout.` Such Perjònrmay know, that the афишу of the true nature and Caufeof any the nia/i minute thing, doth promote real Knowledge, and there fore hnte шф ' have

cannot he unßt fr to the advancement eminent Petjòm, not difdained to

any Man: endeauourt, who i: wil/ing toA contri of Learning. ‘Upon which At'countjöme of the ‘ injl/èveral figer, who were Men of hißngß, he aw­ their pain: ahout the Fir/l Element: of

]иизСагГаг, i: jâid to have written a Book de Analogia; Speech. `

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Emperonr Charles the Great,­to have made a Grammar of hi: vulgar Tongue. sa did St. Ваш für the Greek; and St. Anftin for the Latin, hath extant in their Workr.

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_ Big/ide: diver: afgreat reputation hath Ancient and Modern ‚ who have Written whole Book: on pnrpafè, concerning the Nnmher of the Letter: in the Alphabet; Other: have applyeal their difhui/ition: to ­finte particular Let-_ ter: : Mefßla Сон/таз‘, a Great Man,­and a [атом Orator „приз/1 the Romans, Writ a Book concerning the Letter S. Aclamantius Martyr, wa: the Author afanather Book,concerning the Lettera-eV. and B. Our Learned

Gataker ha: Puh/:flied a Book concerning Dipthongs. And Jovianus Ponta nus фетиш! a Learned Мал/м”) 'Iwo Book: de Adfpirationqor the Letter Ht С

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