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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -

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  1. cule dreh ortier Pcople, ic did degenerare inte
  2. seretat Dialects. Belides thole Lour chaE arE
  3. cheir LangiIASC: And IHe PreleNE COptIC OF SE.
  4. Erptian Scems, boch From the Woras and che Cha-
  5. racter, 1o be a Branch oF chis Family, and v 20
  6. probably spread amongst chac Pcople in the Day.
  7. NOR WWARY, is a Gist lesE BY a Man at his (OF Alexander che Great, uxon his conquerins ob
  8. cheiri; tho Porrie conceire char there were ac
  9. Couney lons betore liis Time.
  10. 2. The Fatin, etio ehis Be much oF ic a DC.
  11. Eptings and Deriracions) had ancienr Pour se
  12. veral Dialects; as Petrus Crinicus Mers out oE
  13. Varro.
  14. 3. The Teuronie or German, is nou distin-
  15. Suihed into Dpper and Lover. The Tpper hach
  16. trro nocable Dialects: 1. The Danisto, Scandi-
  17. an, or perhaps che Corhic; to Wrtich belones the
  18. Languasc uled in Denmarte. Normay. Sneedland
  19. and Istand. 2. The Saxon, eo wrhich apperiain
  20. the sereral Languages ot etie Fnstisto, che Scots
  21. 4. The Slavonic is excendec, cho wich some
  22. Variarion, etrouph many larse Territories,
  23. Muscovia, Poland, Bohemia Vandalia, Croa-
  24. tia, Fithuania; Dalmaria; and is said to be che
  25. Vulear Laneuase used arrionest sixry sererai
  26. NTatiOnS.
  27. The Laneulases or lester Excene, are,
  28. I. The Albanese, or OId Epirocie, nou ulec
  29. in the Moumrainous ParrS OE Cipirus.
  30. 2. The FuroPan Fartar, Ox Scythian FrOM
  31. which some conceire our trist to have liad its
  32. As Cor ihe Turkist Tonere, etiac is originallo
  33. rabic.
  34. 3. The tunsarian, used in che ercacest PaiE
  35. Ot thac Kinsdom.
  36. 4. The Finnic, uled in Fintand and L apland.
  37. 3. The Cantabrian, uled anion est ehe Discain
  38. 6. Ttie trish, in treland, and trom chence
  39. brouehie over inco lome Parrs oE, Scorland; cho
  40. Mr. Camden vrould hare rhiis ro be a Deriraciom
  41. trom cheWelst.
  42. The OId Gaulith or Britist, Wohich 15 Vet
  43. pereriea at atei egraai ae vertari in
  44. deltros lae Arensct, and hindet c Opera
  45. an Alienation oF Lands and Tenemens 10 Herodotus dorti mention Four several Dialects O
  46. any Cuild, Corporation, Or Frarernier, cheir (che Tonic. The lnhabicanes oE Rbodes, Cyprus
  47. Succettors, 25 Bistrops, Parsons, Vicars, (90. Crere, had eacti oF chem some Peculiaries in
  48. Which may noc be done wichour che PingS Li-
  49. cente, and rhe L Ord OE Che MIanHOF, Or OF itic
  50. V’ins alone, il it be immediarels lioldes et
  51. Deach, eo his Paris Church, For itie recompence
  52. OF his Personal Trches and OHerinss, noc duly least 30000 Families oF Crecles planired in chac
  53. Paid in his Lite rime. A Mortuary IS ROC PTO-
  54. Perly and orisinally due to an Rcclehialticat In-
  55. cumbent from anr, buc thole onty ot his own
  56. Paristes, 25 the Corps passes chrough chem.
  57. MOSAICK Work, Was ancieny used onty
  58. in Parements, and besan in Rome about Sillas
  59. exime; Wrho made a Paremene ot Mosaick WVori
  60. at Preneste inthe Temple OE Forrune, 2bOur 170
  61. Tears betore Christ. IE wras called Lithostroton,
  62. In Creck OnIY a ScOnC PAVeMeNE; BUE IF IS UN-
  63. derstood oE Fioures made or reprelented by In-
  64. Pazitu OF mall Stones, Or rather pieces oF Stone
  65. ot ditterent Colours; by the varieey oF which,
  66. many Curious Figures mar DC WVrOUOHE. AFTeE
  67. Ward it came cobe in Fachion tor rhe lncides ot) ehe Frisians, and cherhose on rhe Norrti OE Filve.
  68. the W alIS oF ROOms; and nour adayscher ivorte
  69. ir wich Sirells, ox (nall Pieces of Clals rarioust
  70. Coloured and Figured: Tis a verr Plealant ane
  71. alastins Ormamene, uhen eis curiouns and ex
  72. celleney done
  73. MOTTIER Tongues, in Lain, Matricest in-
  74. suae, are such Languages as scemto have no DC.
  75. Pendance upon, Verirarion Trom, or AHini
  76. Wich onc anocher. Tis a Conjecture commony
  77. receired. Thac ac che Contulion ot Languases
  78. ac che Torver ot Babel, there ivere tormed 70.
  79. Or 72 Sererally distinet Laniguases: Buc Bithop
  80. Wilkins thinks eis probable chere ivere noc (o
  81. manz, and thac at the Airst Dispersion Men didnor
  82. divide into so manz Colonies. Burnon che Lan-
  83. puages uled in the Woria, do tar exceed chac Original.
  84. Nrumber: IF rou wwill beliere Pliny and Strabo,
  85. chere as a Ponn in Colchos called Dioscuria, 1o no orher bur ile Asraric Fartar mixed wrich Ar-
  86. Wtrich Men oF three hundred Nations, and a5 menian and Persian, Tome Crecte, and muchr A.
  87. inany severat Lanouares, did RelOrE FOr Tra
  88. dins. Some ot che American Fristorians relate,
  89. Thac in every 80 Miles oF chac vast Counry.
  90. and also in almost every parricular Valler oF
  91. Peru, the Inhrabicanes had a distinet Languase,
  92. or Mocher-Ponsue by chemselres. And Pur-
  93. ehas cells uS, Piler. LIb. 8. Sect. 1. C ap. Y. ThaL
  94. by Converse and Enquier, in the NOrihern ParES
  95. Ot America, about Florida, he Found more than ers, Who lire neas the Ocean on che Pyrene FTills
  96. 1000 disterent Languages amonsst thic Inhabi- borderins borti uxon France and Spain.
  97. ranes oF chose Places.
  98. Joseph Scalizer astirms chere are no more chan
  99. Fleven Mocher-Pongues uled in Furope; Ot
  100. etrich Four are ot more general and large Ex
  101. FeHE, and the Other SEVen OF a HaFEOWeF COm
  102. Pals and Dse
  103. 2. The Grecke, wtrich as anciently oF very
  104. Sreat PxtenE, not only in Furoxe, buc in Asia and
  105. Eed, trhen cher are mix d wich such thines as juvere planed; by wtich Dispertion and Mix-
  106. tion.
  107. NIORTMATHE, a Perm in Faw, sionityins commonty noced; che Doric, Lonic, Kolie, Acic.
  108. tim.
  109. Parim. Buc by Custom in lome Places oE this rivarion from the Greck; (OF which the non
  110. Kinsdom, cher are paid 10 che Parsons ot ortier Prench, Spanisto, and Tralian, are leverat OH.
  111. Prane.
  112. Africk 100, wohere sereral C0lories ot chac Darion

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