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PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND;

AND J. BALFOUR, EDINBURGH.

MDCCLXXXVI,

077

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HE public demand has made a fecond edition proper, of this third volume of the Origin and Progrefs of Language, which completes the work; the first volume containing the Hiftory of Language, its origin and progress among the barbarous nations-The fecond, confidering it as an art brought to perfection by nations more civilized, and explaining the science and philosophy of it-The third, fhewing how words, the doctrine of which had been explained in the preceding part, are to be put together, fo as to form what we call Style. Of these three parts the

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