Sect. 2. The Subject continued.-Laws of Memory.-Importance of Attention Sect. 3. The Subject continued -Artificial Memory. Of Penmanship, as connected Sect. 4. Different Appearances of Memory СНА Р. ІЦІ. Sect. 2. Fourthly, The Relation of Cause and Effect.-Superftitions arising from this and the preceding Principle. Sect. 3. The fame Subject.-Custom, an af counted for, from the Influence of Cuf- tom, as an affociating Principle. CHA P. III. THE Theory of Language. PART I. Of the Origin and General Nature of Speech. СНАР. 1. Man the only Animal capable of Speech. Audible. CHA P. II. Of the Organs of Speech, and the Nature and Powers of the human Voice. -Of Articulation.-Vowel and Confonant Sound. their Formation, and various Claffes. Thirty-two or Thirty-three elementary Sounds in the English Tongue. 285 302 CHA P. III. The Alphabet imperfect, and Spelling irregular; but neither ought to be altered: - Pronunciation cannot be the Standard of Orthography.-Of teaching the Deaf to fpeak.-Of Diphthongs, Syllables, Words.—Of long and short Words. CHAP. IV. Of Emphasis, 1. Rhetorical. 2. Syllabick, which is either Long-vowelled, or Short-vowelled. — Of the Numbers or Measures of English Poetry, as depending on Emphafis ;-their Nature, and Varieties. Page 319 336 CHAP. V. Of Accent. Its Nature and Ufe.- CHAP. VI. Abfurdity of the Epicurean doctrine of the Origin of Language: Men must have spoken in all Ages; the firft Man, by Inspiration.-The variety of origi 366 nal nal Tongues, a Proof of the Scripture History of Babel. - All Languages have fome things in common; which it is the Bufinefs of Univerfal Grammar to explain CHAP. VII. Of the Art of Writing; its importance and Origin.-Different Sorts of it practifed by different Nations.---A fhort History of Printing. Page 374 386 |